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...most closely watched mission was the five-day sojourn in Cambodia by U.S. Ambassador to India Chester Bowles. It was also the most surrealistic. Chief of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk, worried that the Viet Nam war might spread into his country, asked the U.S. to send an emissary. Then, on the eve of Bowles's arrival, he executed one of his more spectacular volte-faces by declaring that the ambassador would be better off visiting the ruins of Angkor Wat than talking...
Rumors sprouted in several countries that the Communists were ready to talk. Then the possibility that the war might spill over into Cambodia seemed suddenly more remote with the decision by Prince Norodom Sihanouk to discuss documented U.S. charges that his country is being used as a sanctuary by Communist troops. President Johnson chose Old Asia Hand Chester Bowles, 66, U.S. Ambassador to India, for the mission. He will try to work out an accommodation with Sihanouk, an old acquaintance, that would guarantee Cambodia's borders. Though Sihanouk last week accepted eleven airplanes, including three MIG-17 jets...
...declined to go along. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu insisted last week that, if allied troops were hit by enemy fire from Cambodia, hot pursuit was not only justified but "indeed a military necessity." The U.S. has launched a new diplomatic initiative to convince Prince Norodom Sihanouk and other "interested" nations, including Russia, of the North Vietnamese presence in Cambodia. It is privately circulating documents that pinpoint the evidence and calling for a strengthening of the International Control Commission...
...Prince Sihanouk began the week by warning that he would call on volunteers from China, Russia and other Communist nations if U.S. or South Vietnamese forces entered Cambodia. But, in a surprising turnabout, he later told a reporter for the Washington Post that his army would not necessarily attempt to stop U.S. troops from entering Cambodia in hot pursuit. Provided, he added, that 1) Viet Cong or North Vietnamese troops had entered Cambodia illegally, a move that he now concedes they have made in the past, while continuing to insist they are not there now; 2) the U.S. launches...
...officials hope that Sihanouk's neutrality may gradually become a little less Red-tinged. Occasionally they are encouraged by such actions as Sihanouk's recent forceful response to Peking's propagandizing in Cambodia; he closed down Red-lining newspapers and threatened to recall his ambassador. But Sihanouk has a way of dissipating good will quickly. Recently he has been mixing particularly virulent attacks on the U.S. ("neocolonialist aggressor") with denials that the Communists are using Cambodia as a sanctuary. Last week, angered by the discovery of a Communist camp site inside Cambodia by three American newsmen (TIME...