Word: sihanouk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strolling through the ruins of the 600 temples at Angkor, the noblest remnants of Asia's past, she could almost be the private citizen she wished to be: the ordinary tourist looking, touching and marveling. It was a brief respite, however, on her tour of Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk's Khmer Kingdom (see color opposite). Flying from Pnompenh to the port city of Sihanoukville last week to dedicate a street named for John F. Kennedy, Jackie soon had to cope with her host's propensity for using her presence as a publicity platform to the world...
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...
...disposal, and the ruler's son-in-law, Prince Monirak, was assigned as her aide. A gala dinner in Chamcar Mon Palace on the Mekong River was followed by a performance of the royal ballet. With white frangipani blossoms in her hair, Princess Bopha Devi, Sihanouk's stunningly beautiful daughter and star of the ballet, led ten dancers in a re-enactment of Cambodian legends, and the Prince, enchanted by his guest, bubbled with jeu d'esprit. Jackie, in a lime green gown edged with silver to match her shoes, bantered with him in French and seemed...
...nothing that Jacqueline Kennedy-or any other Kennedy-does is ever simple or very private. Though the State Department had no hand in promoting the tour, Washington was nonetheless pleased by it, and hoped that it might presage an improvement in American-Cambodian relations, which have been almost nonexistent. Sihanouk broke off relations with the U.S. in 1965, as a protest against the bombing of a Cambodian village by South Vietnamese planes. The U.S., for its part, has repeatedly complained about Cambodia's complaisant provision of safe refuge for the Viet Cong...
...visit may have helped "to relax" relations, Sihanouk later said, but it did nothing to alter the Prince's conviction that "sooner or later, all Asia will be Chinese." In nearly three hours of bafflegab at a press conference, he unequivocally supported Hanoi's terms for ending the war in Viet Nam. As soon as America stopped sending planes over the Cambodian border and recognized his country's "territorial integrity," allowed the Prince, he would be delighted to resume diplomatic relations with Washington...