Word: sihanouk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among those who feel that the commission is bound to fail is Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, whose record in predicting events in Indochina has been remarkably accurate. Answering questions cabled by TIME's Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, Sihanouk said: "I wish I were wrong for the sake of the Vietnamese people, but I believe South Viet Nam will eventually be divided in two-that is, one South Viet Nam satellite of the U.S., and another South Viet Nam run by the Viet Cong-for a while at least. One day a violent confrontation between...
...Cambodia, Premier Lon Nol declared a unilateral halt to offensive operations against the Communists. Exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, during a visit to Hanoi, pledged that the forces he nominally heads would not start major actions either. The North Vietnamese have only tenuous control of the native Khmer Rouge, and would have a hard time making an agreement stick. But a defacto cease-fire would give the Cambodians a chance to work out their own arrangement...
...stop by mid-February. The Cambodian government announced a three-day cease-fire to give the Communists a chance to stop fighting if they wanted to. Cambodian President Lon Nol also made plans to participate in peace talks with the Khmer Rouge Communists and aides of deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk. The prospects for a lasting peace in Laos and particularly in Cambodia, however, seemed at least as dubious as in South Viet...
...maximum psychological impact, TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud reported from the Cambodian capital last week. It coincided with both the Buddhist "Festival of the Dead," when Cambodians commemorate their ancestors, and the second anniversary of the Khmer Republic, which was founded seven months after the ouster of Prince Norodom Sihanouk...
PRINCE NORODOM SIHANOUK...