Word: sihanouk
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...Washington correspondent for the New York Times (now an official at the Pentagon), reported on May 9, 1969 that U.S. B-52s were bombing Communist targets in Cambodia for the first time in the Indochina war-and with the tacit approval of Cambodia's then ruler Norodom Sihanouk. The report seems to have had little impact upon enemy action since the Communists knew perfectly well that they were being bombed. But the disclosure itself clouded the Administration's credibility (as well as that of Prince Sihanouk), since Nixon had been trying to convince the public that...
Until the 1970 coup d'etat, in which Marshal Lon Not overthrew the government of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian rebel force, then known as the Khmer Rouge, was a ragged band of perhaps 3,000 guerrillas who were affiliated with the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. Since then, the rebels have grown into a seasoned revolutionary army of at least 45,000 troops, with a solid support cadre of more than 70,000 civilians. Last week, after visiting Phnom-Penh, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand sent this report on the insurgents...
...Communists who are irreversible servants of Hanoi. One Western military attache has still another theory. He claims that the insurgents are divided between the Khmer Rouge (the old Communists), the Khmer Rumdos (the Sihanoukists) and the Khmer Issarak (the old anti-French forces). Then there is the opinion of Sihanouk, who says that the insurgency movement is a patriotic national liberation army loyal to the exiled Prince...
Most of the ground troops, however, are non-Communist Khmers recruited in 1970 and 1971. Because it is a lush, underpopulated nation where most of the peasants own land, Cambodia was hardly fertile soil for spawning revolutionaries. But with careful use of propaganda and the Sihanouk name (still revered in the countryside), the insurgents and their North Vietnamese advisers were able to raise a substantial army. Good revolutionary manners helped. The North Vietnamese always paid for their rice and left the women alone. They provided medical treatment as well. Only after a period of moving in and establishing rapport with...
Despite Hanoi's powerful military hand, Sihanouk is at least the titular political leader of the K.I. Also increasingly prominent in the movement is an elusive trio known as "the Three Phantoms": Hou Youn, Hu Nim and Khieu Samphan, all members of the Assembly, who dropped from sight in 1967 and were later reported to be ministers in Sihanouk's government-in-exile. Their names frequently appear on documents and in radio broadcasts; in a recent interview with TIME, Sihanouk said that Khieu Samphan is his Premier and head of government. There is some doubt among Western intelligence...