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...Tons Empty. Sihanouk, who had called for the conference in the first place in order to guarantee his borders against "encroachments" by Thailand and South Viet Nam, now viewed the talks as a bit of international skulduggery in which his country would be used as "bait" for a fishing expedition by the big fellows. He wasn't biting. The sudden shift came as no surprise, since Snookie had just returned from Indonesia, where he ran into Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. Peking itself has no desire to enter into negotiations over Viet Nam at the moment, as Chou himself...
Last week everyone seemed willing to talk about Cambodian neutrality-everyone, that is, except Cambodia's Prince Norodom ("Snookie") Sihanouk and his Red Chinese mentors. In Washington, Lyndon Johnson applauded the idea of a Cambodian conference. In London, Prime Minister Harold Wilson heartily concurred. And in Paris, where Charles de Gaulle was playing host to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, both France and Russia gave their consent. To all and sundry it seemed an ideal backdoor to negotiations over Viet Nam, and it was precisely that which bugged the Snook...
...would be locked in a vicious cycle of nationalistic enmity even if Communist aggression disappeared overnight. Vietnamese armies have harried Laos for centuries, earning the Laotians' hate and dread. North and South Vietnamese alike look down on Cambodia, which they helped France rule. Cambodia's dyspeptic Prince Sihanouk snubs Laos, hates neighboring Thailand (a Thai premier once called him publicly "a pig"), and gibes disdainfully that "all Vietnamese are married to women with black teeth...
...Real Issue. Even in the paralyzed U.N. General Assembly, Peking's pals were busy raising a final bit of hell before adjournment. In Cambodia, Chief of State Norodom Sihanouk, who long ago decided that the Red Chinese are bound to win in Asia, is convening an Indo-Chinese People's Conference, at which many of the area's Communist and pro-Communist groups will no doubt demand the withdrawal of the U.S. "aggressors." Sihanouk's scheme was dignified by a letter from Charles de Gaulle, whose Foreign Minister, Maurice Couve de Murville, was in Washington pushing...
TIME based its judgment not on Sihanouk's rejection of U.S. aid, but on his sympathy for the Viet Cong and flirtation with Red China. Last week Pnompenh radio announced that China agreed to supply 20,000 Cambodian troops with heavy artillery and other equipment...