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Series of Tableaux. De Gaulle's gracious reply came in the huge Olympic Stadium in Pnompenh. After 1,000 monks had chanted prayers for him, and 100,000 well-drilled Cambodians dressed in reds, whites, blues and greens had staged a kind of half-time football series of tableaux forming the words Vive la France with French and Cambodian flags and Vive De Gaulle with placards, the general took the rostrum. Bordering as it does on Viet Nam, Cambodia was a good place to amplify a message meant...
...weeks ago, it seemed that U.S. relations with Cambodia's sensitive Prince Norodom Sihanouk were finally looking up a bit. The Pentagon was talking less heatedly about the North Vietnamese infiltrating the south through Cambodia. Roving Ambassador W. Averell Harriman had wangled an invitation to visit Pnompenh in September to discuss a resumption of diplomatic relations, which Sihanouk suspended 15 months ago. A few days later, at a Washington press conference, Secretary Rusk even had a few words of gentle praise for Sihanouk, who had "done a very constructive and positive job in the development of his country...
...French government also signed a deal with Communist China last week to fly one Air France plane, inevitably a U.S.-built Boeing, into Shanghai every week. Probably beginning in September, Air France Flight 180 will leave Paris on Mondays at 11 a.m., stop in Athens, Cairo, Teheran, Karachi and Pnompenh, and wind up in Shanghai at 5:35 p.m. on Tuesday. Air France does not expect to make money on the service, but by extending its route miles it will strengthen its claim to the slogan, "The world's largest airline...
...April the Prince handed over seven tons of dried fish to a Viet Cong representative in a ceremony at Pnompenh's royal palace. Last week American officials in Saigon disclosed that U.S. troops near the town of Lo Go on the Cambodian border had received heavy weapons fire from Cambodian territory, and were ultimately forced to silence it with howitzer fire. Even more interesting evidence of Sihanouk's cooperation with the Communists was the discovery of a new infiltration route into South Viet Nam-a chain of truck roads, bicycle trails and rivers that provides transport for supplies...
Perhaps it was because he had noth ing new to say. He spoke grandly of attacking the "imperialists" with a "Djakarta-Pnompenh-Hanoi, Peking-Pyongyang axis," which sounds like an airline route but is nothing more than a dream that he has often toyed with in the past. The speech confirmed continuance of Sukarno's far leftward drift. With Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi sitting near by as an honored guest, Sukarno predictably ripped into the U.S., pledged "active support" to the Viet Cong guerrillas in South Viet Nam and threatened to nationalize...