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...that an end to the bombing might-or might not-culminate in talks that might-or might not-prove fruitful. Thus when Mai Van Bo, North Viet Nam's representative in Paris, reiterated that the bombing must stop before talks begin, and when Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk echoed that demand, the Pentagon bluntly replied that the North was "demanding a permanent free pass for its continued aggression" against the South. Contradicting the Boss. Secretary McNamara has never called for an end to the bombings. What prompted the talk of his differences with Rusk was his patent ambivalence...
...York Times reporter in but not objective reporters." Others speculated that Salisbury may have fallen into the same trap in Hanoi as he did in Pnompenh last June. At that time, he accepted at face value assurances from Cambodian officials that there was "probably" no such thing as a "Sihanouk trail" along which Hanoi was trucking supplies into South Viet...
...compete bitterly for markets for their copra and sugar, rice and rubber. India, Pakistan and Burma have shown no interest in the hustle and bustle around them. Indonesia, still in the shakedown stage after its anti-Communist upheaval, is only warily beginning to participate. Cambodia stands aloof, although Premier Sihanouk, who likes to root for the winning team, has lately taken steps to bleach some of the pro-Peking coloration out of his government...
...praises America's role in Viet Nam. Faced by the xenophobic madness of the Red Guards, whose actions sent a cold shiver running through Asia, Japan is beginning to contemplate a future in which Tokyo rather than Peking may emerge as the most important Asian capital. Even Prince Sihanouk's Cambodia, which not so very long ago was trailing along after Peking, is now eyeing a safer seat on the fence. And it may not be too much to say that Red China's setbacks helped to encourage North Korea to proclaim its own path of independent...
...Sihanouk needed all the prestige he could extract from touching the hem of De Gaulle's khaki tunic. In the green-and-gold Throne Pavilion, Sihanouk made the two-star French brigadier general an Honorary Supreme General of the Royal Khmer Armed Forces. Under a great moon at the ancient temple of Angkor Wat, Sihanouk recreated the festival of the coronation of a Khmer king. Everywhere, in his toasts and speeches, the Prince was all praise, reminding De Gaulle of "your prestige, your wiseness, your clairvoyance, your sense of equity...