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...misnomer. Intended as a "showpiece" of U.S. know-how, the shoddily built $34 million highway began breaking up almost as soon as it was finished in 1959. Prince Norodom Sihanouk was so appalled at the craters in the road when he tried to drive down it one day that he turned back to Phnom-Penh and took a helicopter instead. Washington promptly chipped in another $15 million to set things straight...
ALTHOUGH American officials here criticize Sihanouk for economic "stagnation." they say that the economy was in fairly good shape at the time of his fall. By imposing restriction on luxury imports, Sihanouk had balanced imports and exports and there was over $65 million in foreign exchange reserves. French economic advisors to Sihanouk estimated that the supply of currency in circulation could be increased by one-third, from 6 billion riels to 8 billion riels, without introducing serious inflation...
...requests made by Nixon for aid to Cambodia during the first part of 1971 will be a good indication. In any event, however, it is the U.S. who will determine the viability of the Lon Nol regime or a non-Sihanouk successor...
...recent weeks, suspected supporters of the deposed Premier, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, were also arrested. A Sihanouk son, Prince Norodom Noradipo, and a daughter, Princess Norodom Botum Bopha, are among those held. From Peking, Sihanouk last week lamented the arrests in a cable to TIME Correspondent Robert Anson. Anson, who was captured by the Communists and held captive for 21 days, had sought Sihanouk's help in locating other missing newsmen. Said the prince in a noncommital reply: "I understand the anguish and pain of mothers, wives and children. I myself am confronted with unhappy family problems; for example...
...accident that he changed his mind last week, roughly six months since the chaotic days following Sihanouk's ouster and the subsequent American-South Vietnamese invasion. Cambodia is hardly a model of stability and permanence today, and martial law still prevails. But Lon Nol seems to have impressed many of his countrymen with his honesty and courage. Deputy Premier Sisowath Sirik Matak has won respect as a shrewd and sophisticated politician, and the government is no longer seen as a here-today, gone-tonight proposition. Particularly noteworthy is the support it enjoys among Cambodia's embryonic professional...