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...salvation," the regime of General Lon Nol, the Premier, and Prince Sirik Matak, the Deputy Premier, moved to persuade Cambodia of the rightness of its rule. In meetings with major national groups-leading Buddhist bonzes, district chiefs, students and members of Sihanouk's own political movement, the Sangkum-the new leaders explained their actions in detail and stressed the economic difficulties and moral corruption of recent years. Key Sihanouk backers were jailed...
Last week Sihanouk (who has served five times as Premier, rules the country whether in office or out) was back from a long vacation in France, 20 pounds lighter and with some brisk new ideas. Calling his Sangkum Party to a convention in Pnompenh, he listened patiently while Sangkum Party Secretary Ek Yi Oun accused the Secretary of Agriculture of having organized a bacchanal, complete with prostitutes, for the National Assembly (retorted the Agriculture Secretary: "I organized the party, all right, but you brought the girls"). Then Sihanouk got to what was on his mind...
...Monastery. Angrily, Sihanouk summoned a meeting of the Central Committee of his Sangkum Party, which controls all 91 seats in the National Assembly. Sihanouk listened, near to tears, while official after official accused Sam Sary of giving import licenses to the wrong people, i.e., someone else. The criticisms, said Sihanouk, were "unjustified." Nevertheless, because they could "be construed as casting a shadow over the reputation of the Sangkum Party," His Royal Highness forthwith annulled all import licenses...
...explanation was chiefly that in a brief time Sihanouk had built the Sangkum into a well-oiled political machine, with party committees in every village. Already revered when king, he seized the common touch by barnstorming in a red convertible and scattered his message by sound truck and radio (TIME, Sept...
Democrats charged that the pre-election arrest of some of their members amounted to intimidation. On election day itself, observers of the Geneva Truce Commission, consisting of Canada plus suspicious representatives from neutralist India and Communist Poland, made spot checks, found no irregularity. The only violence stained not the Sangkum, but the Democratic Party with blood-a Sangkum Party chauffeur was murdered...