Word: lons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These claims are all lies. The bombing, as some reporting has started to show, is directed against an indigenous revolutionary movement, the Khmer Rouge, a force numbering in the hundreds of thousands which is attempting to topple the Lon Nol regime, Nixon's two-year-old creation. The aerial war does not discriminate between military and civilian targets: indeed, there is no difference between the two in a people...
Since he was deposed in 1970 by Marshal Lon Not, Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk has lived in exile in China but has never surrendered his claim to be his country's rightful chief of state. At 50, Sihanouk is still ebullient, charming and volatile-and increasingly bitter against the U.S., which he thinks is destroying his country. Last week, before flying off on a month-long visit to nine African and Eastern European countries, Sihanouk sat down in Peking for an interview with TIME'S diplomatic editor Jerrold Schecter. His main points...
...intervention in Cambodia. But if the new President chooses to continue, we are ready to go on independently until 1980. We have enough courage to do that." Sihanouk insists that the insurgents will negotiate only if the U.S. stops its bombing of Cambodia, withdraws support from the Lon Nol regime, and unilaterally withdraws all American military personnel from Phnom-Penh...
...marshal has nothing to fear, the astrologer assured me, pointing to the long bars in the chart. Lon Nol has a "good spirit" protecting him, and will rule for five years. The Vietnamese will be out of Cambodia by the end of 1973, and peace will come soon after. The marshal should not leave the country during 1973, but he may travel safely in 1974, especially in June and September, his good months...
...course, Lon Nol will have some bad luck in the next five years. The bombing of the palace could have proved fatal, but fortunately it occurred on a Saturday (a good day) rather than a Monday (a very bad day). He may still be injured in an accident, though it will not be serious. But in 1977, his worst year, Lon Nol will cease to rule...