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...shame of it all! There he was in North Korea, fresh from a swinging two-week state visit to Red China and ready to head for Russia, when the Soviet ambassador rang up for an urgent interview. As Prince Norodom Sihanouk explained it to his fellow Cambodians at a rally last week, the Soviet ambassador "entered the drawing room where I was waiting, sat on a sofa with his legs crossed, lit a cigarette in a free and easy manner and started taking big puffs." Then, continued the Prince, "he started reading to me a note on a piece...
...your article about Prince Norodom Sihanouk [May 7]: I'll be looking forward to reading a poison-pen letter from "Snookie...
...NORODOM SIHANOUK...
Last week everyone seemed willing to talk about Cambodian neutrality-everyone, that is, except Cambodia's Prince Norodom ("Snookie") Sihanouk and his Red Chinese mentors. In Washington, Lyndon Johnson applauded the idea of a Cambodian conference. In London, Prime Minister Harold Wilson heartily concurred. And in Paris, where Charles de Gaulle was playing host to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, both France and Russia gave their consent. To all and sundry it seemed an ideal backdoor to negotiations over Viet Nam, and it was precisely that which bugged the Snook...
Another pet project is the Norodom Sihanouk Museum, a converted colonial residence in the center of the capital, which boasts marble floors, two brand-new, porcelain-tiled bathrooms, and the ivory-inlaid bed in which Snookie was born. Peasants troop through in shoeless reverence to view the robes their Prince donned when he received an honorary doctorate in Indonesia, the army uniform he wore back in 1954 as a leader of Cambodian insurgents, and a certificate issued by French colonial authorities stating that Snookie indeed graduated from grade school. Also on hand: the revolver, holster and flight suit...