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...Puns. The casting of Lynn Redgrave as the titular heroine is one clue to this light direction. Redgrave is long of leg and spunky, and does an amusing accent, sort of a delicatessen Dutch. She also narrates the film and dispenses some of the screenwriters' coy puns. One reminiscence begins with "Long before they could call me madam . . ." Other putatively funny episodes involve a striptease performed in the board room of a large corporation before a chairman dressed in tie, pinstripes and undershorts and a wealthy fetishist who enjoys an exotic combination of leather, a barking...
...clear, and the danger of factional fighting appears great. A fortnight ago, the Khmer Rouge leadership reportedly held a "national congress" in Phnom-Penh, with Khieu Samphan, the military commander and Deputy Premier, in attendance. Few Khmer Rouge leaders have publicly mentioned Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Though he remains the titular head of the new government, it is hard to imagine the temperamental but still popular prince fitting easily into the present company in Phnom-Penh...
Laos' de facto legislature has been the Joint National Political Council, headed by the dynamic titular head of the Pathet Lao, "Red Prince" Souphanouvong, 62, who is Souvanna's half brother. Leftists in the Vientiane government have been steadily tightening their control of key ministries (such as Information and Foreign Affairs) and have triggered disruptive strikes by teachers, police and municipal employees...
With the military situation rapidly deteriorating, the government dropped its demands for elections. Via the Red Cross, it sent an urgent message to Prince Sihanouk, who had been titular head of the Khmer Rouge. The government offered a complete cease-fire and full transfer of powers to the insurgents. Its only condition: no reprisals. From Peking, where he lives in exile, Sihanouk spurned the proposals. He denounced the members of the Revolutionary Committee as "traitors who deserve hanging and should try to escape while they can." He urged the government's soldiers to "lay down their arms, raise...
...probably Hawaii, where he underwent medical treatment in 1971 for a stroke. This could open the way for a new government and a negotiated peaceful transition of power to the insurgents. Both the Communists and Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the exiled former Cambodian chief of state who is titular head of the insurgents, have vowed never to sit down with...