Word: norodom
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...Solarz, a New York Democrat. It seems likely that the Senate will follow the lead of the House and approve the Administration's request for $7 million in overt aid to the two non-Khmer Rouge factions of the resistance, one headed by former Cambodian head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the other by former Prime Minister Son Sann. Some officials are ready for direct negotiations with Hun Sen, whom Washington has, until now, dismissed as a mere puppet of Vietnam. Baker himself suggested to the President two weeks ago that talks be opened with the Cambodian Prime Minister...
...does the U.S. Government fit into this mixed picture of revival and suffering? Unfortunately, in Cambodia now as in the past, the U.S. is part of the problem, not part of the solution. During the 1960s, American diplomats used to belittle the attempts by Cambodian leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk to keep his country out of the Vietnam War. They also criticized Sihanouk's enforced willingness to look the other way while North Vietnamese troops used his border areas as sanctuaries and staging grounds for attacks into South Vietnam. In 1969 the Nixon Administration began the secret U.S. bombing...
...communist resistance forces of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, allies of the Khmer Rouge, said they launched a series of grenade attacks on Phnom Penh between Dec. 5 and 10, wounding 16 Vietnamese and two Cambodian policemen...