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...hours after the takeover, the Eagle steamed into Cambodian territorial waters safe from the pursuing U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mellon, which had been ordered by Admiral John Hyland, commander of the Pacific Fleet, to observe her movements. Just before the coup d'état against Prince Norodom Sihanouk (see WORLD), Cambodia granted political asylum to McKay and Glatkowski. At week's end, the Eagle rode at anchor off Sihanoukville, still in Cambodian custody...
Developments in neighboring Cambodia were equally unsettling. In Phnom-Penh, anti-Communists led by Premier General Lon Nol and Deputy Premier Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk as chief of state and ordered North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops out of Cambodia. In a number of border clashes with Communist troops, the Cambodian army called for - and got - help from U.S. and South Vietnamese forces. With the war continuing in South Viet Nam and with the North wrestling with the grave problems that have grown out of the conflict, all four states of Indochina were on the boil...
...campaign from the ineffectual, home-grown Pathet Lao. Neither the frangible Laotian regulars nor the lightly armed, CIA-backed Meo guerrillas of Laotian General Vang Pao have been able to withstand them. In Cambodia, it was North Viet Nam's freewheeling use of Cambodian territory that finally precipitated Sihanouk's ouster. With the U.S. withdrawal under way, Sihanouk grew increasingly alarmed that the presence of so many North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers would encourage Cambodia's own Communists, the Khmer Rouge, to act more boldly. For all his diplomatic dexterity, however, the ebullient prince had found...
Welcome Presence. It is possible that the cagey Prince gave the riots his tacit approval as a way of putting pressure on the Communists to reduce their forces in Cambodia. Sihanouk gave some support to that theory in an interview in Paris with TIME Correspondent Roland Flamini. Preparing to depart for home via Moscow and Peking, he said that he would ask the Russians and Chinese "to exercise friendly pressure on the Viet Cong and Vietnamese not to infiltrate our borders." Unless the Communist powers do so, Sihanouk went on, the result will be the "Americanization of Cambodia." Sihanouk...
Five years ago, Sihanouk feared that the U.S. might extend the war into eastern Cambodia. Today, he has reason to fear that the Communists have dug into that region permanently: some Communist troops have built houses and staked out farms near the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Hanoi obviously has no intention of abandoning its bases-despite a Cambodian government demand at week's end flatly that all Communist troops leave within 48 hours. Cambodia, of course, lacks the muscle to enforce that order. In any event, whoever was behind the riots, it is clear that both Sihanouk...