Word: sihanouk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that they wanted to take the city, or even to increase the considerable swath of Cambodian territory under their control. What was the point of it all? According to some speculation, the attacks were a counterpoint to the festivities surrounding the second anniversary of the overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, under whose rule North Vietnamese troops had free use of Cambodia's ports and jungle sanctuaries near South Viet...
...happy anniversary in any case. Cambodians are less and less enamored of the mystical and sometimes maddeningly extemporaneous Marshal Lon Nol, who seems bent on re-establishing a Sihanouk-style autocracy. When the rockets hit, Lon Nol was deep in a political crisis that was very largely of his own making. Three weeks ago, he threw the country's campuses into turmoil by declaring himself chief of state and abolishing a constituent assembly that was about to promulgate a long-awaited new constitution establishing presidential government. Lon Nol did not care for some of the constitution's features...
...NIXON VISIT. Chou told Sihanouk that "President Nixon made good propaganda for his re-election and good propaganda for China. China must do her best to make the conception of the 'yellow peril' fade away. One of the reasons why China opens her doors is to let the Americans see there is no peril...
...Sihanouk and the North Vietnamese agreed that "the only way for us to obtain peace is to continue the offensive in order to persuade Nixon to give us genuine peace with total respect for our rights to self-determination. Nixon's peace proposal means that the Viet Cong must put down their weapons and go to the elections naked, while [South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van] Thieu will have his army and his police to pressure the people of South Viet Nam." The North Vietnamese, Sihanouk emphasized, link the end of Vietnamization and of U.S. support for Thieu with...
After two years of halting preparation, Cambodia was all set to promulgate a new constitution this week, adopting a presidential form of government. The hopes of the country's legislators, however, were summarily dashed last week by Premier Lon Nol, who overthrew Prince Norodom Sihanouk two years ago. Pronouncing the draft of the constitution unacceptable, he dissolved the Constituent Assembly, posted guards around the Assembly building in Phnom Penh and proclaimed himself chief of state and sole authority...