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Thus ended the five-year rule of the army marshal who led the 1970 coup that sent Prince Norodom Sihanouk into exile in Peking and turned his kingdom into a republic. Sihanouk was mercurial and eccentric. Lon Nol, who was partially paralyzed by a stroke four years ago, was withdrawn and mystic. As Lon Nol's regime became tainted with corruption, Sihanouk managed to ingratiate himself with the Khmer Rouge. The Prince may yet make a comeback in Cambodia, but most likely as a figurehead under the tight control of the Khmer Rouge...
...Administration fears that last week's setbacks will weaken future U.S. diplomatic efforts. China, which Ford plans to visit this fall, appears to be growing somewhat skeptical of American power and resolve; when Kissinger privately asked the Chinese for assistance in getting Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk to help negotiate an end to the war in Cambodia, the Chinese did not even reply. On the other hand, the Soviets appear eager to move ahead with detente and nuclear-arms negotiations. Ford plans to hold a summit in Washington with Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev this summer...
...family would soon depart Cambodia for Indonesia and then proceed to the U.S. - probably Hawaii, where he underwent medical treatment in 1971 for a stroke. This could open the way for a new government and a negotiated peaceful transition of power to the insurgents. Both the Communists and Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the exiled former Cambodian chief of state who is titular head of the insurgents, have vowed never to sit down with...
...March 18 five years ago, President Lon Nol led the coup in Phnom-Penh that forced neutralist Prince Norodom Sihanouk into exile. Last week rockets fired by the Khmer Rouge insurgents kept raining down on the besieged capital, more embassies closed, students demonstrated and a unit of loyalist troops went on strike, but somehow the government survived for another week despite a growing awareness that the U.S. Congress was not about to authorize any more military aid. Meanwhile, there were speculations that Lon Nol may be quitting as President within the next two weeks...
...notable exception is exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the titular head of the Khmer insurgents and unquestionably the most popular man in Cambodia to this day. He is "chief of state" of the Royal Government of National Union of Cambodia-acronymically known in French as GRUNK-the shadow government nominally based in Peking. Most observers agree that Sihanouk has little power within the Khmer Rouge organization. If he should ever return to Cambodia as head of state, it would be as a figurehead who might serve to unite the Cambodian people around a Khmer Rouge government. Sihanouk himself has acknowledged this...