Word: norodom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much too long, Cambodian Chief of State Norodom Sihanouk fretted over the addiction of his "petit peuple" to gambling. All his antigambling laws -and regular police crackdowns on Pnompenh's 40-odd illegal houses of chance-had no effect. Cambodians and the equally avid Chinese and Vietnamese residents in the capital continued to gamble their riels away. Profits to the illicit houses were put at about $20 million a year...
Several days earlier, a helicopter had rocketed the small Cambodian village of Prey Toul near the South Vietnamese border, killing one civilian and injuring 23 others. Prince Norodom Sihanouk's government had complained, and now the International Control Commission -composed of Canadian, Indian and Polish officials-was on the scene to investigate. The fragments they saw were clearly from U.S.-made rockets. The projectile laid out on a table for inspection was a grenade of the kind fired by American helicopters...
...Royal Highness Samdech Preah Norodom Sihanouk Upayuvareach is a man of many parts, some of which he enthusiastically plays himself in his role as Cambodia's leading film maker. Last week he staged his nation's first international film festival, at which two of his full-length works, Shadow Over Angkor and The Little Prince, were screened, along with entries from 23 other nations...
Shadow opened the festivities in Pnompenh, and it was a tossup whether the credits or the plot were more interesting. The credits were relatively simple: Producer, Norodom Sihanouk; Director, Norodom Sihanouk; Scenario, Norodom Sihanouk; Dialogue, Norodom Sihanouk; Music, Norodom Sihanouk; Star, Norodom Sihanouk. The story line, on the other hand, was a bit more complex...
...political overtones, disqualified it from entry in what he had decreed to be a nonprop-aganda festival. Another Sihanouk special, however, was a candidate for a prize. This was The Little Prince, which tells the story, aptly enough, of a little prince (played by Sihanouk's son, Prince Norodom Sihamoni) who ascends the throne after his father's death and prevails over the jealous machinations of a wicked aunt. The credits? Naturally, the movie was produced, directed and written by Sihanouk, though he was not credited with the "classical and popular" Khmer musical score. There was also...