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Calm and seemingly cool in 90° heat, the young woman walked down the red carpet at Pnompenh's Pochentong Airport, escorted by Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, all smiles and a torrent of French. An exotically garbed palace guard held a giant green parasol over their heads to screen them from the afternoon sun, and 200 schoolgirls in bright green sampots, the traditional skirts, sprinkled her path with fragrant rose and jasmine petals, which they carried in silver bowls-the Buddhist way, explained Sihanouk, of honoring very special guests...
...Asia-until last week. When the Chinese accused him of "imperialism, revisionism and reaction," Sihanouk, who has lately been troubled by smatterings of Communist insurgency in rural areas, reacted quickly. He recalled his ambassador from Peking, fired two pro-Chinese ministers from his Cabinet and closed down all of Pnompenh's privately owned newspapers (one of which had printed the offending Chinese telegram). Sihanouk warned that he would break relations with Peking entirely "if China continues to insult us and interfere in our affairs." Then, knowing exactly how to jab the Maoists, he added that "the Chinese practice...
...heard nothing. Then, in the middle of last month's furor over charges that the U.S. had bombed civilian sections of Hanoi, Salisbury got the go-ahead. Picking up a visa at North Viet Nam's diplomatic mission in Paris, he flew to the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh, there boarded a Hanoi-bound flight with members of the three-nation International Control Commission whose job it is to supervise the 1954 agreement that divided Viet Nam. He arrived in North Viet Nam two days before Christmas, filed the first of his stories, via regular commercial cable...
...reported) that the paper has been a consistent critic of the U.S. role in Viet Nam; he complained that Hanoi would "let a New York Times reporter in but not objective reporters." Others speculated that Salisbury may have fallen into the same trap in Hanoi as he did in Pnompenh last June. At that time, he accepted at face value assurances from Cambodian officials that there was "probably" no such thing as a "Sihanouk trail" along which Hanoi was trucking supplies into South Viet...
...Fedorenko had nothing to do with Viet Nam (they were agreeing on the wording of a draft communique about U Thant and the Secretary-General post). Couve's 30-minute speech proved to be nothing more than a restatement of Charles de Gaulle's demand in Pnompenh a month ago for American withdrawal. And as for a "new move," U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg a week earlier had offered to make one-cessation of American bombing in return for North Vietnamese withdrawal from the South...