Word: pnompenh
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...much too long, Cambodian Chief of State Norodom Sihanouk fretted over the addiction of his "petit peuple" to gambling. All his antigambling laws -and regular police crackdowns on Pnompenh's 40-odd illegal houses of chance-had no effect. Cambodians and the equally avid Chinese and Vietnamese residents in the capital continued to gamble their riels away. Profits to the illicit houses were put at about $20 million a year...
...discussion proved inconclusive. Despite the conciliatory efforts of the Indian commissioner, there was no Polish-Canadian agreement. After a lunch of roast beef, the ICC team headed back for Pnompenh and a cocktail party...
...with their tattered ICC flags had become mobile monuments. At one point this year, the ICC in Viet Nam was so badly squeezed for funds that Aigle Azur, the French air charter that provides the battered, ancient Boeing 307 Stratoliners for the weekly commission flights linking Saigon, Pnompenh, Vientiane and Hanoi, refused further fly-now, pay-later trips...
Shadow opened the festivities in Pnompenh, and it was a tossup whether the credits or the plot were more interesting. The credits were relatively simple: Producer, Norodom Sihanouk; Director, Norodom Sihanouk; Scenario, Norodom Sihanouk; Dialogue, Norodom Sihanouk; Music, Norodom Sihanouk; Star, Norodom Sihanouk. The story line, on the other hand, was a bit more complex...
...election with equanimity and even pleasure, it was partly because of familiarity. In his eight years as Vice President and five years as a paripatetic counsel for Pepsi-Cola, Nixon had met with virtually every world leader and with hundreds of the most prominent politicians from Paris to Pnompenh. The Shah of Iran sent a congratulatory cable citing "our long relationship of cordial amity." Even Gamal Abdel Nasser of the U.A.R., which has broken diplomatic ties with the U.S., expressed good wishes...