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Thus ended the five-year rule of the army marshal who led the 1970 coup that sent Prince Norodom Sihanouk into exile in Peking and turned his kingdom into a republic. Sihanouk was mercurial and eccentric. Lon Nol, who was partially paralyzed by a stroke four years ago, was withdrawn and mystic. As Lon Nol's regime became tainted with corruption, Sihanouk managed to ingratiate himself with the Khmer Rouge. The Prince may yet make a comeback in Cambodia, but most likely as a figurehead under the tight control of the Khmer Rouge...
...Administration fears that last week's setbacks will weaken future U.S. diplomatic efforts. China, which Ford plans to visit this fall, appears to be growing somewhat skeptical of American power and resolve; when Kissinger privately asked the Chinese for assistance in getting Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk to help negotiate an end to the war in Cambodia, the Chinese did not even reply. On the other hand, the Soviets appear eager to move ahead with detente and nuclear-arms negotiations. Ford plans to hold a summit in Washington with Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev this summer...
...would soon depart Cambodia for Indonesia and then proceed to the U.S. - probably Hawaii, where he underwent medical treatment in 1971 for a stroke. This could open the way for a new government and a negotiated peaceful transition of power to the insurgents. Both the Communists and Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the exiled former Cambodian chief of state who is titular head of the insurgents, have vowed never to sit down with...
...Many of the student leaders denounce the U.S. for its continued support of the regime and for supplying the arms that prolong the war (and endanger their draft deferments). In any event, the students' message had to be profoundly unsettling to Lon Nol. The 1970 coup against Prince Sihanouk that brought the present regime to power was, after all, triggered by student demonstrations...
Information Minister Hu Nim, 42, and Minister of the Interior Hou Youn, 45. Both studied in Paris in the 1950s, served in Sihanouk's Cabinet briefly in the 1960s, fell out with the Prince and escaped into exile. Together, the three came to be known as the "three ghosts" of Cambodian politics because it was long believed that Sihanouk had ordered them executed in 1967 for alleged complicity in the Battambang uprising. But in May 1970, two months after Sihanouk's overthrow, the three announced, from somewhere in Cambodia, their support of Sihanouk's new "national front...