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...this must have looked heaven-sent to Moscow. Outside the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh a team of Russian engineers, working with 1,500 coolies, two and a half years ago began to build a soo-bed "Soviet-Khmer Friendship Hospital." matching anything in Moscow itself. Staffed by 18 Russian doctors and medical technicians-Cambodia itself has only a handful of native M.D.s -the new hospital was equipped with ten air-conditioned operating rooms, a cobalt "bomb" for cancer treatment, a hairdressing salon, room telephones, and pale blue potties in the children's wards...
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...
...their royal palace at Pnompenh one evening last week, Cambodia's King Norodom Suramarit and Queen Kossamak paused for a moment before leaving their private apartment behind the throne room. The acting protocol chief of the royal household, Prince Norodom Vakrivan, had just brought in a package newly arrived from Hong Kong. The accompanying card said that it contained a "gift for the King and queen" from a U.S. engineering company that had helped build the 134-mile Cambodian-American Friendship Highway running from Pnompenh to the seaport of Sihanoukville...
Message to Ike. Pictures of Dap Chhuon's bleeding body were posted in triumph on the trees lining Pnompenh's avenues, and Sihanouk flew a delegation of foreign diplomats into Siemréap to show them the "proof" of a plot-two captured Vietnamese radio operators, $4,000,000 worth of gold, and a purported message to Cambodian exiles in Thailand asking the strength of their forces. Brushing aside the denials from Thailand and South Viet Nam, Sihanouk thanked the Communists for tipping him off, and then turned on a "certain leading power" that furnishes arms to both...
...Saigon, Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem was the most seriously disturbed, for Red penetration of Cambodia would outflank his nation and give the Communist Chinese access to the Gulf of Siam. Diem rushed his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu to the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh to negotiate a settlement of the border question, and the Cambodian radio announced that terms had been discussed in a "relaxed atmosphere." Sihanouk promised, as soon as he returns from his current junket to Peking, to pay a visit to President Diem in Saigon...