Word: sihanouk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Constant Writer Sihanouk...
...your article about Prince Norodom Sihanouk [May 7]: I'll be looking forward to reading a poison-pen letter from "Snookie...
...NORODOM SIHANOUK...
Another pet project is the Norodom Sihanouk Museum, a converted colonial residence in the center of the capital, which boasts marble floors, two brand-new, porcelain-tiled bathrooms, and the ivory-inlaid bed in which Snookie was born. Peasants troop through in shoeless reverence to view the robes their Prince donned when he received an honorary doctorate in Indonesia, the army uniform he wore back in 1954 as a leader of Cambodian insurgents, and a certificate issued by French colonial authorities stating that Snookie indeed graduated from grade school. Also on hand: the revolver, holster and flight suit...
...capital, from street sweepers to policemen, if the city did not shape up. Typically, no one was fired and Pnompenh remains as threadbare as ever. As government corruption accelerates, justice declines: a young government clerk received a stiff sentence for stealing 25?, while rumors indicate that one of Sihanouk's pals took a $125,000 bribe for a government contract and got away without punishment. All of this has set sentiment smoldering among Cambodia's tiny class of professional people and intellectuals...