Word: sihanouk
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...almost no popular support. Almost immediately after the coup that brought Lon Nol to power in 1970, the Khmer Rouge began to expand rapidly, and since then they have been slowly winning support in the countryside and steadily regaining the ground Lon Nol took from deposed Prince Noredom Sihanouk. The Khmer are now armed with a well-trained fighting force estimated...
...general confusion exists about the Khmer leadership. Before the 1970 coup, Sihanouk actively expressed the Communists Party of Cambodia. Since his exile in Peking began, though, he has become sympathetic to the Khmer and they, in turn, have given him at least tacit support. In a series of pronouncements from Peking during the last few years, Sihanouk has indicated, in phrases reminiscent of Nixon, that he would like to return to Cambodia after Lon Nol's ouster as a kind of self-styled elder statesman. The Khmer have given little indication of what role they expect Sihanouk to play...
...resort to prostitution to feed their families; it means families have had to try to sell some of their children to stay alive. Cambodia is also still in a state of military conflict. The Khmer Rouge, who have fought Lon Nol since his 1970 coup that drove Prince Norodom Sihanouk into exile, now control three fourths of the land area in Cambodia. Only massive amounts of American aid--$700 million annually, most of which is military--and the threat of American retaliation prevent the rebels from over-running the few, isolated urban centers where the Lon Nol regime still holds...
...revolution that overthrew the Communist-dominated government of President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. The CIA has been suspected of participating in the 1967 military coup in Greece, the capture and killing in 1967 of Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia, and the 1970 overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia...
...Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk seeks U.N. support in recovering control of his country from the U.S.-backed government of Marshal Lon Nol. Washington opposes the move...