Word: sihanouk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect of Nixon's January bombing threat was to harden the already obdurate position of the Cambodian guerilla forces led by Prince Sihanouk, whom Nixon refused to speak with during the February 1972 China trip, according to Harrison Salisbury's recent book To Peking and Beyond. The Cambodian resistance leaders alleged on January 26 that the United States had plans to destroy their zone of control, which they claim constitutes 80 per cent of the land area and 90 per cent of the population...
...certainly could not have attempted such a "bluff" without encouragement in the form of assurances of continued aid from Washington. As alluded to by Prince Sihanouk on February 27, although his Vietnamese allies had removed the bulk of their troops from Cambodian territory in accordance with the Paris agreement signed on January 27, the United States had not only continued its bombing and military assistance to Lon No1 but it had also maintained support personnel in Phnom Penh...
...third anniversary of the 1970 coup that exiled Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Phnom-Penh was rocked by new explosions and a new crisis. A Cambodian Air Force trainer stolen by a young officer swooped low over the Presidential Palace and dropped two 500-lb. bombs. The bombs missed the palace and slammed into a cluster of huts that housed presidential guards and their families. At least 38 people died, and about 50 were wounded...
...pilot, a flying-school reject named So Potra who also happened to be the lover of one of Sihanouk's 13 children, escaped by winging off to a landing field somewhere in Communist-held eastern Cambodia. U.S.-backed President Lon Nol went on the radio and denounced the attack as "a clear attempt to kill me." He decreed a state of emergency, fired his air force chief for negligence, rounded up scores of the usual suspects and placed about 20 of Sihanouk's relatives under house arrest. In Washington, officials gloomily described the situation in terms ranging from...
Cambodia's situation is even more intricate. The 40,000-strong Khmer insurgents, according to U.S. State Department officials, control more than 50% of the land and 40% of the population (Prince Sihanouk claims a far higher figure of 70% of the population). The insurgents are a disparate coalition of Communists, nationalists, dissidents and pro-Sihanouk loyalists. Originally armed by Hanoi, the Khmer Rouge is now largely independent of the North Vietnamese. In the more than two years since Cambodia was invaded by Saigon's forces and brought into the war. the rebels have proved themselves at least...