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Since he was deposed in 1970 by Marshal Lon Not, Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk has lived in exile in China but has never surrendered his claim to be his country's rightful chief of state. At 50, Sihanouk is still ebullient, charming and volatile-and increasingly bitter against the U.S., which he thinks is destroying his country. Last week, before flying off on a month-long visit to nine African and Eastern European countries, Sihanouk sat down in Peking for an interview with TIME'S diplomatic editor Jerrold Schecter. His main points...
...CAMBODIA. Sihanouk says that he tried to talk about negotiations with President Nixon or Henry Kissinger, and was rebuffed on four separate occasions. "Now I am no longer interested in meeting Kissinger ... We [the Communist-dominated Khmer Rouge insurgents] are prepared to go on until 1976 because we hope that after President Nixon, the new President will decide to stop the U.S. intervention in Cambodia. But if the new President chooses to continue, we are ready to go on independently until 1980. We have enough courage to do that." Sihanouk insists that the insurgents will negotiate only...
...Sihanouk visited Khmer Rouge-held sections of Cambodia in March and asked his people their opinion of America. "They said, 'Bombings, bombings, killing, killing. We cannot be friends with such an inhuman country.' My people cannot be aware of your good traditions or the background of your Revolution. They know you through the B-52s, the AC-130s, the Spookies [gun ships] and the F-111s and F-105s...
...Vietnam peace agreement and that in Laos as well rests with the peoples of those countries. Congress and the public have come to accept that the U.S. must stop interfering in Cambodia's affairs, which will surely result in well-deserved victory of the revolutionary forces led by Prince Sihanouk and the Khmer Rouge...
...quite clear. After talking with the astrologer, I think I understood why the marshal is so calm in the face of the advancing enemy. He has been promised five good years, so why should he negotiate with Prince Sihanouk and the Communists? After all, it's not in the stars...