Word: sihanouk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...districts of Mimot and Snuol. On May 2, a first contingent of South Vietnamese mercenaries arrived in Phnom Penh to defend the Lon Nol group, which was about to be destroyed by the Cambodian people, risen in mass in response to the historic call of March 23 of Norodom Sihanouk, the legal chief of state of Cambodia and president of its United National Front...
...Nixon's favorite phrases were not isolated incidents. Two days later, Wang Hung-wen, party vice-chairman and No. 3 man in Peking's Politburo, accused the U.S. of having directly "engineered the reactionary coup d'état" of 1970, which toppled Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk. Wang described "U.S. imperialism" as "armed to the teeth"-a highly belligerent image in Chinese...
...Khmer Rouge, small and powerless during the Sihanouk years, grew in numbers dramatically after the Lon Nol takeover and the ensuing American bombing...
...Khmer Rouge are led by prince Norodom Sihanouk, the former Cambodian ruler who was deposed in a 1970 coup and presently lives in exile in Peking...
...Sihanouk, formerly a fierce neutralists, opposed the Khmer Rouge during his nearly two decades in power, but he allied himself with them after he was outsted and he is presently viewed as their leader...