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Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia greeted Hong Kong Correspondent Eric Pace at his palace in Pnompenh, where he was hosting a dinner in honor of the French Ambassador to Laos. With a somewhat puzzled grin, the Prince informed his 40 guests in a loud voice: "This is an American journalist from TIME. He is making a reportage here although the magazine is forbidden...
TIME has been banned in Cambodia for most of the past five years. A long-term ban came in February 1959, after a rather uncomplimentary report on the Prince. The ban was lifted last year, and then after the story (Nov. 29) about Sihanouk's attack on U.S. aid, a new decree banned TIME for "critical acts of injury against the Cambodian government." But the fact that we are not one of the Prince's favorite magazines nor he one of our favorite statesmen does not mean that we can or should ignore...
...Cambodia, a ten-member South Vietnamese delegation was on hand to try ironing out longstanding border disputes between the two countries. Cambodia's Prince Norodom ("Snookie") Sihanouk had just tried to hold similar border talks with North Viet Nam-an interesting endeavor, in view of the fact that Cambodia has no border with North Viet Nam, only South Viet Nam. Apparently rebuffed by a mystified Ho Chi Minh, Sihanouk protested that Hanoi's Reds had been "as vague as the Anglo-Saxons." But that did not necessarily make him any friendlier toward the South Vietnamese delegates...
Hardly had that delegation arrived when a serious border incident erupted. In hot pursuit of a gang of 20 Viet Cong, South Vietnamese armored cars and planes attacked the village of Chantrea four miles inside Cambodia. Sihanouk called it "savage aggression," reported that 16 Cambodians had been killed. Pleading faulty map reading, the embarrassed Saigon government admitted the intrusion, apologized, and promised indemnification. But it countered that several guerrillas had been found in the village, thus tending to confirm the well-known fact that the Viet Cong operate freely out of Cambodia. As usual, Sihanouk had some more words. Over...
...Sihanouk's drift to the left is based on his conviction that all southern Asia will one day be dominated by Communist China. By cozying up to the Reds now, he hopes to get the best terms possible if and when Cambodia is finally forced to become a Chinese satellite. "I see things as they are," he says, "not as I would like them...