Word: sihanouk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the newsmen have been held for as long as four years. During that time a number of investigations have been launched to find them. But Cambodia has been so torn by insurgency that it was nearly impossible to pursue leads. Even Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the deposed Cambodian ruler who is now living in exile in Peking and who is the insurgents' nominal head, has said that he can learn nothing about the missing journalists. The committee's announcement rekindled hope that the mystery surrounding the newsmen's fate may soon be resolved...
...neighboring Cambodia the war grinds on. An interview with an official of the Sihanouk government in exile suggests that the chances for compromise are dim. In Laos, however, the signing of the Vientiane agreement offers some prospects for peace. Since the spring, the Pathet Lao have sought to seperate themselves from their old Vietnamese and Cambodian allies. In Thailand, conservative students overthrew the pro-American ruling junta-- wonders never cease! And of course, the U.S. Congress has clamped a lid on U.S. bombing and enacted restrictions on Nixon's war making powers...
...Zambia was by Black Africa. Nonetheless, with so many illustrious and sometimes clashing luminaries under one roof, there were bound to be fireworks. One such incident occurred when Castro declared that Moscow was the nonaligned world's best friend in the fight against U.S. imperialism. Whereupon Prince Sihanouk took to the floor and, without bothering with a microphone, began vigorously dissenting. "We fully respect the Soviet Union," he declared. "But one thing we cannot understand is why Moscow maintains diplomatic relations with the Lon Nol clique of traitors with whom we are fighting...
There was gray-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, one of the world's longest-reigning monarchs, and Fidel Castro of Cuba, still the archetypal revolutionary in his olive-drab uniform. There, too, was King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India and scores of others...
...thus gave South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu a chance to consolidate his military and political position. Instead of keeping Cambodia nonCommunist, the American incursion helped catalyze the minuscule pro-Communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas into a movement of na tional scope. It pushed Prince Norodom Sihanouk, a dedicated neutralist who was overthrown as Cambodia's ruler in spring 1970, reluctantly into the hands of Hanoi and Peking...