Word: sihanouk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...challenged. The U.S. made more than 3,600 B-52 sorties and dropped 100,000 tons of bombs on that nation at a time when Nixon was publicly proclaiming that its neutrality was being respected. The Administration later contended that the secrecy was necessary to maintain Cambodian Prince Sihanouk's tacit approval of the action, which was aimed at Communist troops in border mountains, not at civilians. The arguments were carried most effectively by New York Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman and Alabama's Flowers...
HOLTZMAN: But Prince Sihanouk was deposed on March 18, 1970, and there are three years thereafter that this Administration, including the President, lied to the Congress and lied to the American people without any justification ... Congress may very well have approved it. But... it was the right of Congress to have known ... Deceit and deception over issues as grave as... waging war cannot be tolerated in a constitutional democracy...
...Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre drew fire last week-from South Viet Nam. Beauvoir and Sartre, along with a group of fellow French intellectuals, appealed to the next French government to recognize the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government and further to recognize the exiled Prince Sihanouk as the rightful ruler of neighboring Cambodia...
...Cambodia to try to save its creature, the band of traitors in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian people and its heroic People's Army for National Liberation, under the direction of the National United Front of Cambodia and the Royal Government of the National Cambodian Union headed by Norodom Sihanouk, chief of state of the Kingdom of Cambodia, will have no other honorable alternative but to continue without compromise or hesitation their war of resistance till it ends in total victory...
...Cambodian problem created by the Nixon administration's war of aggression can't be resolved except through Sihanouk's five-point Solemn Declaration of March...