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Until the 1970 coup d'etat, in which Marshal Lon Not overthrew the government of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian rebel force, then known as the Khmer Rouge, was a ragged band of perhaps 3,000 guerrillas who were affiliated with the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. Since then, the rebels have grown into a seasoned revolutionary army of at least 45,000 troops, with a solid support cadre of more than 70,000 civilians. Last week, after visiting Phnom-Penh, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand sent this report on the insurgents...
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...
...American government were sincere about wanting peace in Cambodia, it would stop supporting a repressive dictatorship, and allow the people of Cambodia -- represented by the Khmer Rouge and the supporters of the deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk -- to determine their own destiny...
...only banner of the National United Front of Kampuchia (FUNK). FUNK has helped liberate about 90 per cent of the country, and the areas liberated have been under the sole administration of the Royal Government of National Union of Cambodia (GRUNC). GRUNC has been led by Prince Norodom Sihanouk and is recognized by 33 governments around the world and last summer it was admitted to the conference of over 60 non-aligned nations in the world--convened at Georgetown, Guyana--as the sole legitimate government of Cambodia...
...grand banquet hall of Peking's Great Hall of the People one day last week. He paused uncertainly at the door, but protocol officials hustled him over to stand in line with Premier Chou En-lai and greet guests at a dinner honoring Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk. In this low-key style, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, now 69, returned from the shadows that have enveloped him since 1966, when he was purged along with Chief of State Liu Shao-chi as "one of a handful of party leaders who took the capitalist road...