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...Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, figurehead ruler of the Khmer Rouge insurgents who now control his country, made that point in its most extreme form when he boasted last week: "The U.S. won't be able to hold on to Taiwan forever; the same goes for South Korea. In Thailand the people will also rise. How long will it take? Not very long." As if in reply, Ford said: "These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world...
After Diem was executed in the 1963 coup, Minh became chief of state. He was ousted a mere three months later, having proved himself to be an ineffective administrator, and went into exile in Thailand. When he attempted to return in 1965, the tower at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport refused to grant his plane landing clearance; he had to return, humiliated to Bangkok. Three years later, Thieu-in what he described as part of a move toward national reconciliation-invited Minh back to Saigon. There Minh bided his time, tending the orchid garden at his spacious villa...
...Sirik Matak were on the old Khmer Rouge list of "seven traitors" slated for death. Four others, including President Lon Nol (see story below), escaped before the capital fell. Another, former Premier In Tarn, waited until it was almost too late, and finally fled across the border into Thailand, with Communist troops firing at him. Also in Thailand are approximately 1,000 other Cambodian refugees; most are expected to stay on or to settle permanently in the U.S. and France...
Among the Cambodians who fled into Thailand, many were soldiers who brought along their U.S.-made equipment. Khmer Rouge demands that the equipment be returned-including armored personnel carriers and aircraft-led to tension between Thai and Communist border guards. The Thai government sent 1,000 troops to reinforce 4,000 border police in a determined effort to stem the continued inflow of Cambodian refugees...
...North Carolina-born son of a Baptist minister, Martin, 62, has been a Foreign Service officer for 28 years. Far from being an Indochina hawk, he actually opposed American military involvement in Viet Nam in 1963, when he was serving as Ambassador to Thailand. "In fact," he insists, "my known opposition to using U.S. troops turned Thieu off when I first arrived." Says one former colleague: "In Bangkok, he was a real professional. He was one of the few ambassadors in that part of the world who could keep the U.S. military in their country under control. In Saigon...