Word: phnom-penh
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...head of state during the 1960s, he had exiled, jailed or executed many of the Khmer rebels. But last week the past was officially forgotten-at least temporarily. After more than five years of exile in China, Sihanouk and his wife, Princess Monique, made a triumphal return to Phnom-Penh. Traveling from Peking with the royal family was Deputy Premier Khieu Samphan, who is believed to be the real power in the new Cambodian regime...
...diplomatic efforts provoked no rejoinder from the Cambodians. In fact, Ford and his advisers were pessimistic all along about the prospects for diplomacy because U.S. analysts believe that the Chinese do not wield much influence yet in Phnom-Penh...
WEDNESDAY. Efforts to use diplomacy to increase the pressure on Cambodia to release the crew were still going on. At lunchtime, Ambassador John Scali handed United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim a letter asking him "to take any steps within your ability." Waldheim offered Phnom-Penh his "good offices," but received no answer...
...mention of the crew. Monitored in Bangkok, the message was relayed at 8:16 p.m. to Washington, where the President was donning black tie in preparation for a working dinner for The Netherlands' Prime Minister Uyl. After reading the text of the Cambodian broadcast, Ford told Kissinger to tell Phnom-Penh in a radio broadcast, to be transmitted internationally, that he would halt military operations as soon as the Mayaguez's crew was released. At 8:45 p.m. (7:45 a.m. Cambodian time), A-6 Intruders and A-7 Corsairs took off from the Coral Sea to bomb Ream Airfield...
From the beginning, Cambodia was Sydney Schanberg's story. He had covered the country's often baffling civil war from its first days in 1970 for the New York Times, and he was determined not to miss its end. Ignoring his editors' orders to leave Phnom-Penh last month, he chose to stay behind to report the city's fall. Last week Schanberg's considerably risky decision paid off impressively. Having emerged at the Thailand border after 17 days of suspenseful silence, he filed a remarkable retrospective on the Communist takeover that filled more than...