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...four factions in Cambodia's civil war were all present in Jakarta last weekend. On hand were Prime Minister Hun Sen and leaders of two of the three guerrilla armies fighting to overthrow him: Son Sann and Khieu Samphan of the infamous Khmer Rouge. The third, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, pleaded a last- minute illness and sent a stand...
...York Democrat. It seems likely that the Senate will follow the lead of the House and approve the Administration's request for $7 million in overt aid to the two non-Khmer Rouge factions of the resistance, one headed by former Cambodian head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the other by former Prime Minister Son Sann. Some officials are ready for direct negotiations with Hun Sen, whom Washington has, until now, dismissed as a mere puppet of Vietnam. Baker himself suggested to the President two weeks ago that talks be opened with the Cambodian Prime Minister. In a decision made...
...they will see no reason to go from the battlefield to elections," says a congressional staffer. "They aren't going to throw in the towel just because they lost their seat in the U.N." The noncommunist resistance also sounds determined to carry on. From his residence in North Korea, Sihanouk branded the U.S. decision "an act of very serious injustice" and vowed to continue the fight...
...does the U.S. Government fit into this mixed picture of revival and suffering? Unfortunately, in Cambodia now as in the past, the U.S. is part of the problem, not part of the solution. During the 1960s, American diplomats used to belittle the attempts by Cambodian leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk to keep his country out of the Vietnam War. They also criticized Sihanouk's enforced willingness to look the other way while North Vietnamese troops used his border areas as sanctuaries and staging grounds for attacks into South Vietnam. In 1969 the Nixon Administration began the secret U.S. bombing...
...communist resistance forces of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, allies of the Khmer Rouge, said they launched a series of grenade attacks on Phnom Penh between Dec. 5 and 10, wounding 16 Vietnamese and two Cambodian policemen...