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Calm and seemingly cool in 90° heat, the young woman walked down the red carpet at Pnompenh's Pochentong Airport, escorted by Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, all smiles and a torrent of French. An exotically garbed palace guard held a giant green parasol over their heads to screen them from the afternoon sun, and 200 schoolgirls in bright green sampots, the traditional skirts, sprinkled her path with fragrant rose and jasmine petals, which they carried in silver bowls-the Buddhist way, explained Sihanouk, of honoring very special guests...
...disposal, and the ruler's son-in-law, Prince Monirak, was assigned as her aide. A gala dinner in Chamcar Mon Palace on the Mekong River was followed by a performance of the royal ballet. With white frangipani blossoms in her hair, Princess Bopha Devi, Sihanouk's stunningly beautiful daughter and star of the ballet, led ten dancers in a re-enactment of Cambodian legends, and the Prince, enchanted by his guest, bubbled with jeu d'esprit. Jackie, in a lime green gown edged with silver to match her shoes, bantered with him in French and seemed...
...nothing that Jacqueline Kennedy-or any other Kennedy-does is ever simple or very private. Though the State Department had no hand in promoting the tour, Washington was nonetheless pleased by it, and hoped that it might presage an improvement in American-Cambodian relations, which have been almost nonexistent. Sihanouk broke off relations with the U.S. in 1965, as a protest against the bombing of a Cambodian village by South Vietnamese planes. The U.S., for its part, has repeatedly complained about Cambodia's complaisant provision of safe refuge for the Viet Cong...
More Imperialist than the U.S. India and China are historic rivals and enemies, but Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia was one of China's few remaining friends in Asia-until last week. When the Chinese accused him of "imperialism, revisionism and reaction," Sihanouk, who has lately been troubled by smatterings of Communist insurgency in rural areas, reacted quickly. He recalled his ambassador from Peking, fired two pro-Chinese ministers from his Cabinet and closed down all of Pnompenh's privately owned newspapers (one of which had printed the offending Chinese telegram). Sihanouk warned that he would break relations with...
...Huks as valiant and correct revolutionary fighters. In Indonesia, China is trying to reorganize the decimated Indonesian Communist Party (P.K.I.), utilizing what is left of the Chinese population after last year's massacre. It has long aided the guerrillas in Thailand's northeast, recently drew neutralist Prince Sihanouk's ire for attempting the same thing in Cambodia. And the Chinese have continued, of course, to supply the Pathet Lao guerrillas of Laos with arms, aid and propaganda backing...