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Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia greeted Hong Kong Correspondent Eric Pace at his palace in Pnompenh, where he was hosting a dinner in honor of the French Ambassador to Laos. With a somewhat puzzled grin, the Prince informed his 40 guests in a loud voice: "This is an American journalist from TIME. He is making a reportage here although the magazine is forbidden...
Along with Pace's "reportage" from the Pnompenh palace, Writer Bruce Henderson and Editor Henry Grunwald got wide and deep coverage of Southeast Asia from Hong Kong Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch and the rest of his staff; the thoughts and theories of the State Department were transmitted from the Washington Bureau, and a study of Sihanouk's writings in French came from Paris. Out of it all came a story new enough to reach into the future and old enough to recall the past. Artist Boris Chaliapin reached into the past for the background of his cover painting...
...embarrassed Saigon government admitted the intrusion, apologized, and promised indemnification. But it countered that several guerrillas had been found in the village, thus tending to confirm the well-known fact that the Viet Cong operate freely out of Cambodia. As usual, Sihanouk had some more words. Over the Pnompenh radio, he claimed that American advisers had been in on the attack-and that a Cambodian plane shot down a U.S.-made South Vietnamese spotter plane. And naturally he cabled the U.N. announcing that Cambodia would take its aggression charges to the Security Council...
...guarantee Cambodia's neutrality and safeguard its frontiers from archenemies Thailand and South Viet Nam. But when no proposal met his approval, Sihanouk became convinced of a Western plot to partition his nation. Last week, Sihanouk's obsessive suspicion of the West cued a violent riot in Pnompenh which resulted in the sacking of the British and U.S. embassies and spotlighted Cambodia's alarming drift toward Communism...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson is one of the most highly esteemed Americans in Pnompenh. The reason dates back to last year, when Acheson successfully represented Cambodia before the International Court of Justice in The Hague in a territorial dispute with Thailand. Last week the U.S. tried to capitalize on this friendship in an effort to end its acerbic-and somewhat mysterious-little quarrel with Cambodia's vain, unpredictable leader, Prince Norodom Sihanouk...