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Whether constitutionally legitimate or not, U.S. bombing was unquestionably helpful in keeping the shaky government of Marshal Lon Nol alive. Night after night, the windows of Phnom-Penh rattled as B-52s and F-111s dropped their loads a few miles away. For the moment, following their recent victories, the Khmer insurgents seemed to have halted their attack on the capital-partly because of the U.S. bombing but also to give their overextended supply lines a chance to catch up with them...
...Cambodia, where virtually everyone has a favorite fortune teller, the advice of astrologers often determines whether armies advance, governments fall or prime ministers take trips. When rebels bombed his presidential palace recently, Marshal Lon Nol was rumored to have fired some of his senior soothsayers. Last week TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand ventured into the back streets of Phnom-Penh to visit a gray-haired old astrologer whose clients include the marshal himself. Hillenbrand's report...
...ventured. In reply, he drew on his slate twelve horizontal bars of equal length and twelve vertical bars, some short and some long. The long vertical bars represented good months and years, the short ones bad months and years. This was Lon Nol's chart, he explained. The marshal had visited him many times, and after the recent bombing of the palace compound, Lon Nol had rushed an aide to the astrologer for a fresh reading...
...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...
...Minister of Communications and Public Works when King Paul picked him as Premier after the death of Field Marshal Alexander Papagos in 1955, Caramanlis was primarily responsible for Greece's recovery from the aftereffects of the Nazi occupation and the 1946-49 civil war and for her rapid economic development. After his defeat by the late George Papandreou in 1963, he went into exile amid allegations of rigged elections and secret funds...