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Cambodia's ex-King Norodom Sihanouk has long been the most unpredictable political tumbler in Southeast Asia. At the Geneva Conference on Indo-China four years ago, Sihanouk's delegation won Western cheers with its courageous stand against Communist attempts to take Cambodia by negotiation. Later Sihanouk switched to "neutrality," made triumphant tours of Red China and the Soviet Union, at home coupled on-again-off-again praise for the Communists with equally erratic pats and cuffs for the West...
CAMBODIA. Apart from promising Prince Norodom Sihanouk's neutralist wonderland a 500-bed hospital. Russia has left aid to Cambodia largely in the hands of Communist China, which has adopted its own version of U.S. counterpart aid schemes. Periodically Peking sends Cambodia free shipments of cotton textiles, galvanized iron, raw silk, cement and other Chinese products. These goods-last August shipments were valued at $5,000,000-are sold on the local market by the Cambodian government, and the proceeds are spent on dams, irrigation schemes and low-cost loans to farmers. The catch is that the caliber...
...mint-and custard-colored roofs of Pnompenh's lacquered palaces, a black Lincoln limousine sped south, bound for the rambling Cambodian seaside resort of Kep, 90 miles away by the green waters of the Gulf of Siam. Inside the big car, lonely and unhappy, sat cherub-faced Norodom Sihanouk, who gave up his throne to serve as Premier and had already resigned the premiership three times in less than two years. Behind him in Pnompenh Prince Sihanouk left with his father, King Suramarit, a statement of his intention to resign for the fourth time...
...advantages of being a Nehru-type "neutralist" were altogether too tempting for Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 34, whose intentions sometimes exceed his experience. His fragment of fractured French Indo-China, a country the size of Kansas, was in line to receive economic aid from both West and East. As usual, the U.S. was first with the mostest ($88 million in two years). New hotels, cabarets and bungalows gave a festive air to Pnompenh, the capital, while under the mango trees, cruising Tampa-blue four-hole Buicks bore saffron-robed bonzes (Buddhist priests) to gilded pagodas. By an ingenious...
Last week French businessmen who had come hopefully to Cambodia after the debacle of Hanoi were leaving. In the Mekong River valley 6,000 peasants, terrified by pirates, put their cooking pots on their backs and, driving their water buffaloes before them, moved toward South Viet Nam. For Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the unkindest cut of all was the charge of "corruption in government" by the progressive opposition, and the cry for a Cambodian Republic. Said Sihanouk, with an accent of surprise: "The opposition is planning to discredit the indispensable monarchy. Because of my foolish dreams, things are going the wrong...