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...another, genial Prince Norodom Sihanouk has been boss of the green rice fields, blue lakes, brown, winding rivers of his native land ever since Cambodia got its independence from France in 1953. After 16 months as King of independent Cambodia, Sihanouk abdicated because "the true face of the people was hidden from me." He has been six times Premier and has six times resigned. Now, Prince Sihanouk is known as the Head of State, as a result of last year's national referendum in which he captured 99.97% of the votes...
...Cambodia, Neutralist Prince Norodom Sihanouk has turned neat profits by taking aid from both sides in the cold war, including $300 million from the U.S. But he is wary of the threat the Communists pose. "In order to remain on good terms with my Communist friends, we prefer not to have a common frontier with them," he said recently. Since the West's default in Laos, he has become frankly pessimistic. "I am trying to prevent Cambodia from going Communist, but I do not think that the free world can stop the movement of Communism," he said last week...
...Laos is finished." declared Cambodia's neutralist Prince Norodom Sihanouk-though he himself had called the 14-nation conference in Geneva to try to save it. "It will be completely lost in a few weeks." Rating the chances of saving Laos from Communism at "one in a thousand," the moody prince then departed for a rest on the Riviera. Most of the other big names, including Dean Rusk and Andrei Gromyko, had got away even earlier, leaving the podium to Red China's Foreign Minister, Marshal Chen Yi. He warned that the agreed goal of Laotian neutrality applied...
...Andrei Gromyko, China's dumpy Marshal Chen Yi, hidden first behind the curtains of his huge ZIM limousine and then behind a phalanx of small aides in crumpled clothes. Then came a call from the man who was supposed to convene the conference, Cambodia's unpredictable Prince Norodom Sihanouk. He was enjoying an excellent French lunch en route from the Riviera and would be a little late. Finally, Sihanouk's Lincoln convertible swept up the driveway. The 14-nation conference on Laos got under way just four days and an hour behind schedule...
...nation* conference was supposed to get going, the man who proposed it, Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, had not shown up (but agreed, after some pleading, to come later). As for the Laotians, the Communist side sent two delegations-one headed by a veteran guerrilla representing the Pathet Lao, the other by a onetime Vientiane bookseller who was standing in for self-styled "neutralist'' Prince Souvanna Phouma. The royal government delegation straggled in two days late...