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Tough Side. In a last effort to save the King's gambit, President Kennedy himself made a direct appeal by letter to Cambodia's nervous young Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Alternatively, there was talk of finding some other neutral nations to fill out the commission. But the U.S. had obviously bent about as far as it intended to. In fact, the more reliable anti-Communists of Southeast Asia were openly miffed. "The neutrals sidestep the responsibilities in the area and the really tough decisions," griped a Thai diplomat. "And then you keep inviting them back to settle everybody else...
...Moscow of the world's Communist leaders broke up in guarded politeness, Nikita Khrushchev announced that he would like to come back to Manhattan next spring and have all the world's leaders come too. After a state visit from Cambodia's amiably neutralist Premier Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Khrushchev put his signature to a declaration that Russia and Cambodia "regard as advisable the convocation in the spring of 1961 of a special session of the U.N. General Assembly with the participation of heads of state or governments." Topic: disarmament...
...Southeast Asia's neutralists, none has made the art pay better than Cambodia's unpredictable chief of state, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 37. Since 1955 Sihanouk has extracted $290 million in aid from the U.S., $22 million from France, $23 million from Red China, and perhaps $12 million from Russia. To keep himself from being compromised, Sihanouk, after each Western gift, generally scampers off to Peking or Moscow for an offsetting Red handout. Last week, in a dazzling display of diplomatic virtuosity, Sihanouk unveiled a second rule of aidmanship: always bite the hand that feeds...
Whatever title he chooses to hold, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 37, runs Cambodia. He served as King, and then stepped down. Then he served as Premier, but gave that up for the sixth time when his father died two months ago. Just now he holds no official position at all, but nobody questioned it last week when he asked Cambodians to vote on the proposition of whether they liked him and his policy of neutrality in foreign affairs...
Died. King Norodom Suramarit, 64, pro-Western monarch of Cambodia, who barely escaped assassination last fall, is survived by his son, Prime Minister Prince Norodom Sihanouk; after a long illness; in Pnompenh...