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When he returned to Cambodia two weeks ago from Honolulu, where he had been under treatment for the stroke that immobilized him last February, Premier Lon Nol was still a long way from complete recovery. He seemed weak in body and in spirit, had only limited use of his left arm. dragged his left leg as he walked, and occasionally slurred his words as he spoke. Even so, there was little to foreshadow the crisis that beset Phnom-Penh last week, leaving the government-like Lon Nol himself-in a state of partial paralysis...
...crisis began on his seventh day back in the capital, when Lon Nol abruptly resigned. In bewilderingly rapid order he was 1) acclaimed an official "national hero" by the legislature, 2) made Cambodia's first marshal of the army, and 3) entreated by Chief of State Cheng Heng to reconsider his resignation in view of the country's "grave circumstances" and form a new government. At week's end, Lon Nol was reported ready to accept the invitation...
Like a Copilot. But what did it all mean? Lon Nol had reason enough to claim "ill health"; in addition to the lingering effects of his stroke, he suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure. But his short-lived resignation was also designed to deal with a governmental malaise. While the Premier was away, a bitter struggle flared between his two closest advisers: his brother Lieut. Colonel Lon Non, who commands a Cambodian army brigade, and Vice Premier Sisowath Sirik Matak, a shrewd administrator who is said to be "like a copilot" to Lon...
Evidently, the only solution was a complete shake-up of the government. When it is all over, Lon Nol is expected to resume his premiership and redistribute the machinery of power among three Vice Premiers (two of them newly created) and a thoroughly overhauled Cabinet...
...Cambodian attorney said the trial was one more effort on the part of the Lon Nol regime "to get at Sihanouk [in exile in Peking] by getting at his children." All things considered, however, the outcome was not so tragic as it might have been. The military jury freed the princess and nine of the other defendants but sentenced her brother to five years at hard labor. Still to be tried is another Sihanouk son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who is charged with espionage...