THE DOWNFALL OF SIHANOUK: DON'T BLAME IT ON CIA

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• Publication Date: April 12, 1970
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By DONALD Iaiat Blame It
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/. The American Central Intelligence I American presence here before Si_ threats and intimidation. He wa'
V Agency could not claim the credit - hanouk's downfall does not of strong enough to keep anyone fro
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for overthrowing Prince Norodom course exclude the possiblility that ....,...I ??
Sihanouk as Cambodian chief of CIA-hired operatives could some-
state even if it wanted for some how have engineered the movement
reason to publicize its role here. ? against him.
AU the ingredients exist in this - The anti-Sihanouk drive among
pleasant, intrigue-filled capital, only' intellectuals politicians and cabinet
ministers was so overwhelming,
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found a shred of evidence to indi-
cate the CIA was even remotely circle of American-paid operatives. right to suspend the constitution if.
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ouk's hostility to America's role in here when the prince appointed his ? manner in which he fought the
Vietnam and the desire of Ameri- conservative military commander, Cambodian Communists was their
can military leaders and diplomats Gen. Lon Nol, as prime minister In fear he might employ the same
for Cambodian cooperation in fight- August. tactics against them.
ing the Vietnamese Communists', The reason for discontent, be-'.., Sihanouk's opponents were afraid
based in "sanctuaries" along the sides Sihanouk's reluctance to at- he might finally .suspend the con- ;
;frontier. , tempt to drive the Vietnamese stitution entirely and turn the
Yet the American presence in Communists from frontier base . country into a complete dictator-;
i'^ ( Cambodia, when Sihanouk was areas, was his failure to cope with ship.
.overthrown on March 18, was limit- mounting economic problems. In their campaign against the .?
ed officially to only two diplomats The national assembly in Decem- prince, however, none of Sihanouk's .
and a small embassy staff. No- her approved a bill undoing his opponents s e e m e d particularly
'American businessmen lived here. Socialist economic policies, aware of the consequences in terms
American newsmen visited the' Sihanouk clashed' openly with' of the United States, much less the
country only rarely, and then usual- Prince Sisowath Sink Matak, the i Central Intelligence Agency. Most
ly on tourist visas, and no Ameri- first deputy prime minister, whom_.. of them, including Lon Nol, do not
I can military advisers, AID officials ? speak English, do not seek out the
or Informnti n officers had been he accused of attempting to un- company of Americans and do not
I here. since Sihanouk expelled them dermine" Lon Nol. seem attuned to "American iuflu-
all' in 1953 and 1064. Sihanouk's accusation against ence" in general.
The CIA may well hire operatives Sirik Matak, a member of a rival The main Western Influence on
r from among the sizable French branch of the royal family, epito- j. Cambodia is France, which ruled
community or among Cambodians, mined the manner in which he was the country until Sihanouk himself.
but the agency's activities in all led a bloodless campaign for rode-'
i accustomed to playing his minis- pendence after World War IL Si
? other countries in Southeast Asia ters against each other in order to hanouk, after obtaining complete
seem to depend basically on the maintain his own position. independence In 1953, developed
bassles istence and aid oid largs missions. American em-
ha And yet Lon Nol, although be did ' close ties with France and permit
The CIA "station chief" in most not directly oppose the prince, was tad French business interests to re?'.
countries holds the title of "special already known to have allied with main here.
Sirik Matak, the prime mover be- The French also maintain a mil-
assistant to the ambassador, and hind the opposition to Sihanouk's
members of his staff serve as em- ' itary advisory mission as well as'
bossy "political officers, Ameri? economic outlook. advisers 'in all the ministries.;
/ can AID officials and the like. '~'? Sihanouk was also confronted by Frenchmen helped Sihanouk write',
J ~. In neighboring Thailand, for In increasingly vocal, though subtle, his speeches apd edited some of
stance, the CIA assigns agents un- 'hostility among a handful of depu- his magazines.
der the auspices of the AID mis- ties who persisted in posing embar- One difference between Sihanouk
lion's public safety program, osten- rasing questions about the Influence
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of his wife, Princess Monique, and and his opponents was that most
sibly an effort aimed solely at his in-laws and personal friends. of them did not share his anti
fo ;
building up the Thai national police He attempted to cut down the athy to the U. S. Military offi-
forcece. In South Vietnam, CIA curs, although they gladly accepted ;
agents in the field often advise the influence of some of these deputies Chinese and Russian arms and
Phoenix program, the South Viet- by police investigations of their ac- equipment, did not think he should
nameso government's American- tivities, but he was always afraid of have expelled the American Mill..
Inspired intelligence gathering the reaction he might provoke by tary Assistance and Advisory.:
operation. arresting them or attempting to ex- Group In 1963.
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Cambodia Rally Promotes a'
By a Star Staff Writer
PHNOM PEIIN-The Cambo-
dian government appears on the
verge of proclaiming a republic
after 2,000 years of monarchical
rule.
Prime Minister Lon Nol yes-
terday revealed the govern-
ment's basic plans before some
60,000 persons massed in the
Sports Palace for a vast pageant
entitled "The Will of the People
to Abolish the Monarchy."
"In the name of the chief of
state, of the two chambers and
of the Government of Salvation
and of the Committee of Nation-
al Salvation," said Gen. Nol,
"We envision by all legal means
the establishment of the republi-
can regime."
Lon Nol's words indicated that;; tic in the government's anti-
the government, before pro- monarchical campaign by invit-
claiming a republic, would re-j ing "comments" and "expres-
vise the constitution and then; sions of opinion" and then publi-
,present it for which p voted bi name ncizing them ews agency, via government
radio -andtelevi-
Prince Norodom Sihanouk as
chief of state.
'Demand for Change
The general's remarks cli-
maxed a week of government-
inspired editorials and "popular
demands" for changing from a
monarchy to a republic.
The pageant yesterday drama-
tized the reasons for the change
by portraying recent Cambodian
monarchs as traitors who sold
their lands to the Vietnamese.
"Vive la Republique," shouted! through political dramas attuned,
the audience, mostly students, to basic national themes.
The students carried banners
calling for formation of a repub-
lic and demanding the expulsion
of Viet Cong troops from the
country.
Behind the shouting and the
sloganeering, the spectacle re-
vealed the government's two ba-
sic concerns as it moves swiftly
to complete the anti-
monarchical campaign triggered
b Sihanouk's downf ll
a
people."
The "people" then turned on
"Viet Cong soliders" wearing
conical Vietnamese straw hats
camouflaged by leaves.
The entire pageant reflected
the country's traditional antipa-,
thy toward the Vietnamese,
whose armies have frequently
overrun Cambodian territory.
The pageant did not, however,
criticize the Saigon governmgn
with which Sihanouk' broke df
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' an announcer while girls in Viet-
The first concern, according to g
government sources here, focus- namese dress were portrayed as
es on the legality of the change. seducing a Cambodian king.
Officials are highly sensitive to "Always conscious of their su-
criticism that they do not have periority in numbers and arma-
the right under the constitution ment the Vietnamese attack the
to alter the basic form of rule. Cambodians in order to reduce
For this reason, Lon Nol.has their territory and their
resisted demands that be pro- ) wealth," the announcer went on.
The pageant emphasized the
weakening and dismemberment
of the ancient Cambodian cm-
plro under later kings and
princes Including Sihanouk.
Sihanouk's -role was also de-
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claim a republic wiflibut first nouned in pamphlets cascaded
presenting the .idea for approval from low-flying airplanes as the
by all branches of government. students marched into the stadi-
Lon Nol has carefully pre- um before the pageant began. t
pared for change, however, or- Cartoons on the pamphlets'
dering the dissolution of the showed Sihanouk inviting North
symbols of monarchy ranging Vietnamese and Viet Cong
from the Council of the Throne troops into Cambodian territory.
to the use of the word "royal" in The pageant dramatized Cam-
the names of government corpo- bodia's shifting foreign policy by
rations. with legality ridiculing Sihanouk's distrust of
His re- the United States, whose aid pro-
lates to the government's second grams he rejected in 1963 and
main concern - the popular ef- 1964.
feet of reversing tradition that "The Cambodian right-wing is
pervaded all phases of national sold to the Americans and CIA,".
life until less than a month ago. said an overfed student cast in
`Comments' Published the role of Sihanouk.
"Drive the invaders out of
Lon Nol has attempted to in- Cambodia," replied a row of stu-
volve the entire Cambodian pub- dents playing the "Cambodian
The turnout of students at the
sports stadium indicated the in-
fluence of the government in the
capital, but it was still far from
clear how the rural population
would respond.
Sihanouk was famed for his
popularity among the peasants;
who often distrusted lesser offi-
cials and politicians.
Student actors yesterday fol-
lowed a pattern set by Sihanouk
himself. in attempting to popu-
pictured the 'American imperl-
alists" and the South Vietnam-
ese government as the villains
while yesterday's spectacIe
blamed -Sihanouk and the North
Vietnamese for the country's
problems.
"These Vietnamese u t i l I z e
Communist ideology or humani-
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By IAN BRODIE days without someone making a Morgan, a thickset fellow
London Express Staff Reporter lbid to overpower them? from California, also impressed
formerly Si- Capt. Donald Swann, at last me when Tass man Artur Blinov
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hanoukville), Cambodia, April 9 back . on his ship after three entered one of the holds to in-
-The captain of the hijacked weeks in detention and getting spect the napalm bombs. The
I ship ex- ready to sail, said:"Most of the new regime in Cambodia had in-
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American mapa
plained the mystery Tuesday: men came to me individually vited Western and Communist
t;How did, two gunmen keep a and told me they were with me journalists i abordo the ship, the
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old,wer,;,a.:araw.of 13fQrfour 100 per cent-and any plan LI1Col~lumbb all the rumor sspike once
could devise to recUPsu~c cargo was small arms supplied
by the CiA.~;.-,
per cent no matter what it en. Blinov loo4d scornfully at the
bombs andsbid:: "they're ail
tailed.
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'the ship, the cargo-and the
route for Thailand to be dropped:
over Vietnam. But the United
of to send the vessel to Thai-
land or Vietnam "to protect
Cambodian neutrality."
So for the time being the anti-
war hijackers have got what
they wanted-political asylum
ulation.
Swann, 50, from Port-
Capt
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land, Ore., tall and heavily
built, talked frankly about the
nightmare that began when
McKay marched into his cabin
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Sihanouk Might
Have on if
He'd Returned
BY JACK FO1SiE
tlmt? Sltll Wrlltr
PHNO1\1 PEN 11, Cambo-
' dia - Even Cambodians
who distrusted and feared
Prince Norodom Sihanouk
believe he might still be .
-the nation's leader had he
made a dramatic return.
home from France when'
opponents moved openly
!him. But the Lon N
big powers in an effort to was scheduled to see dur- Matak group forced him TATI NTL
keep Cambodia from he-; Ing a leisurely return accept Cheng Heng as a
coming engulfed in the home. Then, so goes the ceremonial replacement-
Vietnam and Laotian theory, the Lon Nol-Matak 1 and then, after the coup,
wars. faction doublecrossed him. made him the formal re-
So when. anti-Commu-
riots he in Phnom ' ? -But. this is a minority.. plar'cment,
nisi began opinion. Most observers, I When the effort to
Penh-a protest, against believed that the mob topple Sihanouk became
the presence of North. attacks on the North Viet- apparent to his political
Vietnamese and Viet Cong namese and Viet Cong allies here, there was a
troops on Cambodian soil ? e in b a s s I c s w e r e e n- move to head off the
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and indirect)y a ,Flap, at
gineered by Lon Not It incipient coup. Col. Oum
Sihanouk-it was expect- was Sihanouk's ineptness . Mammourin, half-brother
ed that Sihanouk,- would: which made the takeover of Sihanouk's, wife, Mo-
fly home and dramaticalT easier than expected. nique, and head of the
take 'the. issue to . tlie 5olidi[ies Opposition national police, together
people, with Sosthen Fernandez,
City aiithnritles were so Sihanouk'shigh-handed- head of the secret police,
certain of his return they ness and egocentrism tried to enlist army sup-
began putting up the flags. had been solidifying his port for Sihanouk . and
and other trappings gusto- opponents. He h u r l e d against Lon Nol.
maril.y displayed for every stinging insults at legisla- It did not succeed and.
fly-in of the v o lat i l e tors not ready to serve as. both men are now report-',
h I s rub b e r stamp. He ed under house arrest
prince.
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Now, three weeks after But Sihanouk chose to. blocked measures intend- Sihanouk went ahead
the 47-year-old royal, dally. And during ,his inac ed to remedy economic 1 with his Moscow and Pek-
Etatesman't: sudden dis tinn there canie.the,"cons problems. When the mea- Ing visits. But his mission
missal, the ' events and stitutional coup d etat. cures were passed, any- no longer was to ask his
ploys which led to .his.' The Lon Nol-Matak tan-... way, he sabotaged their hosts to pressure the
.ploys
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have been sorted-
dem had the national as-operation. . North Vietnamese to keep
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out. In summary, theyaembly dismiss Sihanouk. His meddling in govern- their Cambodian presence
indicate that Sihanouk-
who had. dominated his
country's affairs since the
end of World War II-lost
his political "touch" In the
months before he made his
17lnrnnpnn trin_
the maneuverings against ? but assumed real power, side Cambodia, which U.S. Central Intelligence
him continued to flaunt Prince iVlatak is his depli- most concerned Lon Nol Agency - his favorite
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his 0power and made no ty. They asserted to the and Prince Matak. whipping boy In past '
effort In placate the men world,- 'that the govern-' They began to whip up years. With the reest.ab-
cho became his challen- merit dad, in fact, not' public feeling against the lishment of American-
era - Prince Sisowath changed at all This legs resence of foreign troops Cambodian diplomatic re-
r-
that hi.: popularity with States, to retain diploma-. printed in Hanoi to pay
the peasants would ; see tic relations with Cambo- t o r North Vietnamese While leaders in Moscow
him through p n l i t 1 c el dia. ? troop purchases in Cambo- and Peking were reported-
Many observers consider' dia. ly sympathetic and Peking
brushes with rivals.
- that Sihanouk's intemper- Th "P vl i nal Revo- has given Sihanouk tem-
o
Lon No1. accepted by most nations, , was a "crisis" over coup- may be a CIA operat on in
S I h a n n u k was com both Communist and tree terfeit Cambodian curren- P h n o m P e n h. But no
has t,it is orld,'an inallowed United cy entering the country. tai edcto support eSihan-'
toned, hecan w of faith all, g the ?assertedly (maybe true) ,
?ouk s charge
` Sirik Alatak and Lt. Gen.- listic opinion has been on Cambodian soil.. There ]ations last year, there
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orar residence, neither
Relied an Populace ate rebuke to the soil- l eutionarY Government AV s
Important members of communist demonstratnra of p y Communist nation seemed
the Republic of Vietnam"
? the government f o u n d and to the government for, -the latest name'tora the eager to threaten the new
their thief-of-stale unpre- allowing riots while' he political arm of the Viet Cambodian regime until it
dictable, If not unstable, was away, helped to get Gong-was allofetly J and 11a;;? been' assessed.
and blamed him for the the Lon Not-Matak faction it is reliably reported
nation's floundering ego- the needed support for a contraband may have been) goods flying in from , that the problem of how to
n o m y and precarious takeover. And his failute. F u ropean sympathizers' Ali; Sihanouk back Into
delegated
foreign policy. But the to come home to quell the ' ..using diplomatic privile- , pnlyer has been delegated
people-"my millions of revolt was the crowning : g to age Hanoi government.
little Buddhas," Sihanouk mistake in misreading the Res to pass them through ; .althe stirring up of pro-
Cambodian customs.
C alled them - liked his political situation. ' Sihanouk peasants. parti-
ap nature and the Some of the moves war 'positive y Some ? persons believe against Sihanouk were an cubes, in The eastern pro-
applauded' hillSihanouk himself acurew, by,, North Vletna-
neutrality-In this he a- open testing of strength. i nese and ,.V. i e t.Con g
played off Last and West proved of the anti-Victn- , When he departed for his t' the
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to strengt en is argatn. wanted to appoint a trust-
Ing positions with Russiaai
and appoint its own as- ment affairs at all levels modest. now he wanted the
aembly' president, Cheng : was stifling progress, his Communist world to rees-
Heng, ..as acting - chief-of- opponents claimed. - tablish him in Cambodia.
state. But it was Sihanouk's Blames CIA
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allowing 50,-
"neutralism,
Position Arcepted 000 North Vietnamese and He was quick to assert
Ton I4oi remained as Ihr? _ Viet Cons; troops to.occu that he had been ousteda by
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U.S. Advisers'
Role Reported
in Cambodia
By CARL ROBINSON
Aaaocraled Press Starr Writer
ROUTE 1, CAMBODIAN-
SOUTH VIETNAMESE BOR-
DER - South Vietnamese
troops have moved into Cambod-
ia, apparently with their Ameri-
can advisers, to reinforce the
Cambodian frontier garrison on
Route 1 against the North Viet-
namese and Viet Cong.
Visual evidence today indicat-
ed that American advisers were
taking part in the first known
instance of South Vietnamese
military forces establishing
themselves on Cambodian soil
since the overthrow of Prince
Norodom Sihanouk on March 18
created a more favorable cll?
mate in Phnom Penh for such
operations.
Two uniformed Americans
were seen at this key crossing
point on the highway between
Saigon and Phnom Penh. One
was an Army officer on the
Cambodian side of the border.
South Vietnamese forces are
in Cambodia at the request of
Cambodian officials, Vietnamese
border police told newsmen.
Barricades Cleared
The barbed wire barricades
and claymore mines at the bor-
der that long blocked Route 1 to
vehicles have been removed.
South Vietnamese army trucks
and jeeps moved freely back
and forth with troops and equip-
ment.
(The U.S. Command In Saigon
said yesterday that no U.S.
helicopters had crossed the
border into Cambodia. Field
reports had said U.S. copters
ferried paratroops into Cam-
bodia.)
The U.S. Army officer climbed
into a jeep at the Cambodian
compound. As a Cambodian offi-
cer drove him across the border
into Vietnam, the American sud-
denly realized newsmen's cam-
eras were aimed at him, and he
tried to hide behind the jeep
seat.
The jeep spun around and
went back into Cambodia. It re-
turned a few minutes later, this
time with the South Vietnamese
commander of the local militia
unit.
This officer, who had been
friendly to an Associated Press
reporter and his photographer
on previous visits to the border,
turned away handshakes and or-
dered the newsmen out of the
Vietnamese, border compound,
adding. an epithet for emphasis.
Wears No Insignia
after occupying the town of Chi-
pou, 10 miles west of the border.
A Vietnamese police officer
told the newsmen: "If you had
been here yesterday, you would
have seen air strikes two and
three kilometers away, over
there" He pointed down the
road into Cambodia.
"If you had come here yester-
day," he continued, "The border
would have still- been closed.
You would not have seen all of
this."
Gunships Take Toll
South Vietnamese helicopter
gunships were reported yyester-
dny to have killed an cr+timotod
150 Viet Cong and North Viet-
namese five miles inside Cam-
bodia during a reconnaissance
mission along Route 1. South Vi-
etnamese Skyraiders also have
been reported operating over
Cambodia in support of Cambo-
dian and South Vietnamese
ground forces: ~,,. ;
The other American, wearing
a khaki uniform without insig-
nia, was inside the Vietnamese
compound just east of the bor-
der. A jeep parked outside car-
ried the "T' license plate used
by American intelligence agents
in Vietnam. He avoided the
newsmen.
The border stations have not
come under attack recently, but
severe fighting has occurred on
both sides of the frontier this
week, four to five miles to the
north in Vietnam and as close as
six to ton miles in Cambodia.
Viet Cong troops today were re-
ported continuing a slow but
stQady advence'alo ,Route::
Vietnamese soldiers could be
seen clearly, building defensive
bunkers around the Cambodian
border station compound 200
yards to the west. A Cambodian
flag flow above their beads. -.
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Asian tinderbox: Cambodian leaders parade as Red envoy arrives in Laos
Indochina: The Calm Before the Storm?
n a land where he was once slavishly
' adored, Prince Norodom Sihanouk's
name was suddenly mud. The cabal that
overthrew the Cambodian Chief of State
two weeks ago diligently set about de-
stroying his reputation in the hope of
heading off any popular outcry for his
return. Newspapers ran obscene cartoons
of Sihanouk and his wife, Monique, and
the same radio announcers who had sung
his praises so extravagantly a short time
ago now vied in berating him. Pictures of
Sihanouk and his mother, Queen Siso-
wath Kossamak, were ripped from walls
all over the country, and there was talk
of abolishing the monarchy. As a special
gesture in honor of the coup, Phnom
Penh's Sihanouk Street was renamed
"March 18, 1970, 1 p.m. Street."
To those who had feared that the
Cambodian Coil) might trigger a wider
war in Indochina, these activities seemed
reassuringly parochial. "At this point,"
said a junior diplomat in Saigon, "the so-
called 'Indochina war' is the greatest
non-event in history." But later, events
took a more ominous turn. In Cambodia,
pro-Sihanouk rioters forced the govern-
ment to call up reserves, and there were
unconfirmed reports that Viet Cong
troops were moving toward Phnom Penh.
In Laos, the Communists appeared to be
massing for another attack. And in South
Vietnam, the government took advantage
of the Cambodian coup by attacking ene-
my forces across the border. In short, it
seemed much too early to write off the
bodia. One of the principal aims of the
new regime is to expel North Vietnam-
ese and Viet Cong troops from their
sanctuaries along the border with South
Vietnam. But the triumvirs in Phnom
Penh-the Prime Minister, Lt. Gen. Lon
Nol, Deputy Prime Minister Prince Siso-
wath Sirik Matak and Chief of State
Chen Heng-wisely decided that their
best chance for survival was to follow
the neutralist path that Sihanouk trod
hey asked the Soviet Union and Britain,
the co-chairmen of the 1954 Geneva Con-
ference on Indochina, to do the job for
them by restoring the International Con-
trol Commission that had been set tip by
the conference partly to police Cambo-
dian neutrality (Sihanouk sent the com-
mission packing in 190) as an economy
measure). The new leaders also tried to
maintain working relations with Commu-
nist diplomats in the hope that the North
Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops could
be negotiated off Cambodian soil. And
Lon Nol's government even held onto the
Columbia Eagle, the hijacked American
munitions ship, for fear that by releas-
ing the vessel it might appear to favor
the U.S.
But Lon Not seemed to be having
trouble balancing on the tightrope. It
was unlikely that the Communists could
be persuaded to lend a hand, for Hanoi,
Moscow and Peking were all convinced
that the new regime in Phnom Penh was
leaning toward the West. For one thing,
possibilit that Indochina might explode. glfer," however, t rned out to be nothin the government began to clamp down on
In Lppptl($V eEor eLerase 21dQQ/ /S tvar BOPS 0' ~~1R0014M2? moist military sup-
attack on the key government outpost at If the outlook was disturbing in Laos, plies through the Cambodian port of
Long Cheng did not materialize, and it it was even more disheartening in Cam-' Sihanoukville-continuing a process be-
looked as though the North Vietnamese
and their local allies, the Pathet Lao, had
stalled after taking 'nearby Sam Thong.
But the Laotians were not yet out of the
woods. "The North Vietnamese appar-
ently tried to take both Sam Thong and
Long Cheng in a rush," said an official
foreign observer. "It only worked half-
way, and now they are regrouping for a
massive, more conventional assault on
Long Cheng" No one had much faith
that the force of Meo tribesmen defend-
ing Long Cheng could hold out for long,
and there were fresh reports last week
that transport planes laid on by the CIA's
(box) had carried several hundred Thai
soldiers in as reinforcements. (Thailand
denied that it had any regulars in Laos,
but officials conceded that "volunteers"
might have joined the fray.) This trans-
fusion, however, was no sure-fire cure.
"Sending the Thais up there is not like
having a Panzer division defend the
place," said one U.S. military man. "The
Thais spook as badly as the Laotians."
Unavailing Efforts: Diplomacy failed
to case the crisis. President Nixon sent a
strong note to Soviet Premier Aleksei
Kosygin asking Moscow to reconvene the
1962 Geneva Conference on Laos, of
which it is co-chairman, in order to stop
the fighting. But most observers gave that
effort little chance. for success. Another
letter was sent by messenger from the
Pathet Lao's titular leader, Prince Sou-
plianouvong, to his half-brother, Laotian
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-and there were even reports that Conn
munist ships had been completely pro-
hibited from docking there. From the
Communist point of view, the Cambodi-
ans were also getting uncomfortably'
chummy with South Vietnam, whose
Vice President, Nguyen Cao Ky, impetu-
ously cabled his congratulations to the
new team in Phnom Penh. South Viet-
nam's planes and artillery supported
Cambodian troops operating against the
Communists-and infantry and armor even
mounted an attack across the border. And
although the U.S. tried to play it cool,
American jets last week struck against
enemy gunners who had fired on Saigon
troops from positions inside Cambodia.
Against this backdrop, North Vietnam
and the Viet Cong abruptly recalled all
their diplomats from Phnom Penh. Al-
though this action fell short of a com-
plete diplomatic break, it pretty well
blighted the chances of negotiating a
Communist troop withdrawal. Peking
and Hanoi also lent their support to Si-
hanouk's call for an "army of national
liberation" to depose the Lon No] gov-
ernment. And by late in the week that
policy seemed to be paying dividends.
For there were reports that pro-Sihanouk
demonstrators had raised havoc in the
provincial town of Kampong Cham.
Menace: Unquestionably Sihanouk still
had many admirers in his native land.
But even so, it was generally believed
that lie would find it difficult to spark
a successful uprising from China or
Russia, where he plans to maintain his
homes in exile. The reported 40,000
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops
in Cambodia, however, will pose a con-
siderably more serious threat to Phnom
Penh if Hanoi decides that it cannot tol-
erate the existence of an unfriendly
government there. Although Cambodia
has some 35,000 regulars and nearly t
100,000 militiamen, they are lightly l
armed and almost completely untested.
And while outright war with Cambodia
would pose severe problems for the
Communists, whose supply lines are al-
ready seriously strained, it would pose
an even graver crisis for the U.S.-which,
with much more advance warning, has
had little success in trying to stem the
tide in Laos.
Thus, after years of artful cop-outs un-
der Sihanouk, Cambodia had suddenly
emerged as the linchpin of the "Indo-
china problem." If Sihanoukville is lost
to the Communists, North Vietnam will
have to rely even more heavily on the
Ho Chi Minh Trail winding down through
Laos, both to supply its forces in South
Vietnam and, if worse comes to worst, to
mount an attack on Cambodia- as well.
The U.S., for its part, will have an even
greater stake in interdicting the trail in
order to protect the friendly regime in
Phnom Penh. This new factor in the In-
dochinese equation could sharply dimin-.
ish whatever slim prospects remain for a
negotiated settlement i Lao -a d even
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CONSPIRACY? i' Let +ils assgmc that there are those'
The history of the U.S. intervention who believe this will work, no better
in Vietnam is filled with unanswered now than it did before - and. that
questions, the biggest one being how what is required is not the Nixon
i.' reversal, instead, of what he seems to
ot into it in the first place.
we
.
g
Arthur Goldberg, Ambassador to k be doing. How bctter,to countermand,
the United Nations, in the Johnson the troop withdrawal order of' the a
'-Administration, says that it was'all a Nixon Administration than by'
mistake, from the beginning on- creating what can be described as the-
through. Not a conspiracy, lie says,. necessity not for less U.S. forces but
merely a mistake, a tragic one. for more?
Maybe. Why, though, would he The present picture in Laos and.
I mention "conspiracy" in his remarks Cambodia -.surely suggests a buildup.;
on a recent television "Meet The " toward this kind of emergency. Who is
Press" show. Could it be that, the constructing the buildup? In charge in
events underway in Laos and Laos,?we know from recent news.
I
t
reports obtained with great difficulty,
Cambodia, raising as they do more
mysterious questions, prompt is the U.S. Central Intelligence'
thoughts coming under the heading of Agency, the w-a.. a super secret
"conspiracy?" service accountable for its funds and
There is a clear line extending back operations to no one but itself; as.
from at least 1950 - probably before Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and .
I - of U.S. intervention in tlte.lpossibly Johnson found out. The.
post-world-war-two situation in ?chances. are strong that the hand of
southeast Asia', in the area which used the CIA will''be found to have been
to be called French Indochina. (That decisive 'ii Cam~ odia:in the right-'*ii .
t. former colonial territory now consists milita'r'y'''coup' which' deposed "the
of Vietnam Cambodia and Labs.) Catnh.6dian'7egder;"dptince' $ilii6. U
In 1950, with the French embarked
upon an effort to maintain a form of
control over their pre-war possession,
I U. S. advisors arrived from Korea and
the Philippines to teach.. guerrilla
warfare to French 'officers. At about .
b
egan a
the same time there
substantial program of U.S. military
aid to the French. , _l
Four years later the French had had
[it in Vietnam. But not so the U.S.
Between 1954 and 1956 the United
States military presence in Vietnam
replaced the previous French'
I
presence. Little by little ?- the,
complete story remains to be told -.
the role of this presence changed from'
=-training mission to combat support to l
combat replacement, in the number of
illi
t
s
lf
h
. .
roop
on
a
m
a
The Nixon policy, as far as can be .!
determined, is' to attempt to reverse
this process. To 'change the U.S.
military role, that is, back to what it
!was nine or ten years' ago. To
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tured When "Royal Lao" forces and ? w CIA
themercenaries y looted itrtoasuch an thextente that
.Laos base of Sam Thong earlier this 1' official
said U.S. newsmen described it yesterday as "s Were l forced away at sgun pointtbyothe
employees" attempting to stop the looting roops. Buell. they The mercenaries, who receive
Sam Thong. 75 miles north 'of- Edgar M. "Pop"
the Lao capital of Vientiane. Is U.S. agent who allegedly runs WCia onthted as Thai soldi;rs
defend the VV
a major CIA base for the clan- ' "refugee operations" at Sam "free apiece by the CIA offered
/destine army of General yang Thong. was described yesterday a wldh at Sam Thong.
Pao,, a 15.000 man force made up ? by U:S. newsmen as "so mad he Rene world" at
. editor-in-chief of
of Meo tribesmen and led by couldn't talk. There were almost ?' Rene ndri the French of of
U.S. and Thai' advisors." tears in his eyes." The merce-
U.S. ? planes had bombed Sam naries removed" cots. furniture munist a! the papermite
Thong day and night and the and mattresses from the U.S.- yesterday that pro-U.S. ion March
CIA had airlifted battalions of hospital and"" alkeda all ` with a y y focoup rms In the n Cambod
link in a chain h / one of
Thai mercenaries to NCtake the an 1 dor enL Kaylor CIA activities.'
base. In the West German weekly
olitical
" the
"
p
Stern,
magazine.
analyst, Sebastian Haffner wrote
today: "The coup in Cambodia
was staged by the U.S. CIA. The..
slogans and methods by means
of which the government .of
Prince Norodom Sihanouk was
overthrown in Cambodia coincide.'
in every detail with the notor?
I'-taus CIA style."
in Cambodia.- the new mili at
regime proclaimed today th
"calm has now been restored."
it said that tourists and foreign
visitors are again welcome.
There .was no immediate re-
.sponse from Saigon. whose troops
had made a heavy armored visit
'in Cambodia last week.
At least. 119 Cambodians were
known to have been slain by
Cambodian army troops and po-"
lice during pro-Sihanouk demon-
trations in the last two weeks.
,'The new.' regime of General Lon'.
Not has issued a demand that"
all the country's provinces pledge
y'aUegiAnce to the new government
.. loviff than h#9 have done sa "
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Partly in consequence of CIA skulduggery, the war in Southeast
Asia has expanded. It is no longer a Vietnamese conflict with Ameri-
can intervention, and side effects in adjoining areas. As in 1953,.Laos
and Cambodia again are directly involved, and China may be. In a
sense, both Indo-China and Mr. Nixon have come full circle in -17..
years. In ig53, the French were becoming hopelessly. trapped in a
.k costly, unwinnable colonial war. The way out that was suggested,
by no less than the French prime minister, Joseph Laniel, was settle-'
ment through International negotiation, with China as one of the
~,. 1953, at a time when we had just begun to extricate ourselves from
a war in Korea that had cost 33,629 American battle deaths.
;..;. In the upshot, there was an international- conference about Indo-
China, and China did participate in the Geneva agreement. But that
can troops ought to get into the fight. Or so it seemed to Nixon in
and now was threatened with the "loss" of Indo-China as well. The
tide must be stemmed. If the French could not carry on alone, Amer k
French, however, were fast losing interest in any such enterprise,
with or without American assistance. Vice President Nixon never-
theless kept repeating that the United States'-could settle for nothing,
les than "victor could not afford "another. retreat" in Asia. In his
view; the US had "lost" China to the Communists four years earlier
pointed to the expulsion of Communists from Southeast Asia. The
ones lighting and dying in Indo-China): It is Impossible to ay own
arms until victory Is completely won." The finger of duty and destiny
,j;?. on I~ovember 4, 1953 he brashly lectured the French (who were the
i d
negotiators. Vice President Richard Nixon was sternly opposed, and
J
the US did not, at that stage, become directly engaged militarily in
Southeast Asia is not something Mr. Nixon can claim credit for. On
the contrary, he did his utmost to push events the other way. He
was overruled by President Eisenhower, advised by the Army Chief
of Staff, General Matthew 13.'Ridgway. Ridgway investigated what
American intervention would mean, concluded it would ,entail far
greater American fosse? than had been incurred in Korea and said
so to the National Security Council. That encouraged. Eisenhower to
trust his hunch against going to war in Indo-China, a hunch. that
became conviction wLen the French stronghold at Dienblenphu. fell
on May A, 2934. Lut week the government of.. Frinc appged for a
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a truly nationalis't acts
By JOHN P. ROCHE It has to he a counter-revou- by nationalists,' Went berserk
' tionary plot sponsored by Unit-' and killed hundreds of thou-
For some reason or other
e
,
ed States intellig
nce and di-,' sands of Communists.
dictatorships always seem. sta- rected by' "running dogs . of
ble until they are overthrown. -American imperialism." Since, according to left-wing
This came In mind in ennneC- i I have gone into this in some scriptures, Communism in Asia
'
be-
E Cambodia, now shuttling
it Moscow and Peking. At
the outset of the Cambodian
caper, there were many who
suspected that Sihanouk him-
self had written the entire
script. He has played games
like this before. But even if
'? the prince did write the first
act,. it is now clear that the '
second act got out of control
!'and the militant anti-Vietna-
mese forces, centered in the
army, took over the perform- wr,,,c,cs w,,, api,ear n, nn,er,- ??--?? -??- - --- -- --- I t
can journals attempting to pro- between the allegiance to Mos..,-,
, 2111110
i
ti h
nteres
???a` isng isow ginity. Precisely the same thing's thesis out of the water.
little support Sihanouk had in happened in 1965-66 with respect , Now the Khmers, have engag-
events in Cambodia as a "Civil. tual "ecstasies~~about' the brit haver undermined - the whole
'
"
However, the battle line
~
war.
liance of the Communist party basis of the anti-war argument':
and Northt ietnamese,^ that-isI, ' gist of the message was that fighting against progressive na.
h
d
h
e heaaw
a
won
50-60,000 armed visitors from ri1L alone
and minds of the peasants. clear that our enemy is Cam-
the Democratic Republic of Then came October, 1965, and ' munist imperialism, that is, Ho,,
overnment
Vietnam The new
'
g
biti to create
th bld filf "GESTA 'Chi Mih
.e'ooyaure ons amon in Pnom Penh has, of course,
been designated "right wing," ed.P ? the sattemnted es Cians term-' ..a ommunist theotwh le. ofsuccessorformer-state
F ench'''
f the Chase Manhattan 13i1l1 But
it is, in fact, classically nation-
alist.
Hanoi immediately weighed ..
in by alleging that the CIA was
already in charge. Since this
is the first break we have had
An Southeast Asia since the In
donesian turn-around in 1965,
one that presents Hanoi with
real - trouble, the Communists
obviously need a scapegoat.
# Since it is well known through-
out the "progressive world"
that the Vi tnamese Commu-
nists are th, 3flQV dtRilf 1
nationalist, anti-imperialist spir-,
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the background. The late Ber-
trand Russell was wheeled into
the fray to announce "the re-
sponsibility of the United States
for.... this counter-revolutionary
ly for those concerned, dlsputts
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TIIE EXTREME Senate of the United States, this There are at this moment
doves on Vietnam are ex- presidential duty is going to in all of Cambodia precisely
'-.,.+ .,,,o .,t
Wirilli.ftnt= S. White
Nixon Battle Doves
' ploiting the present totally be fulfilled, no matter how
.,confused situation in Cam- much clamor may arise and
bodia to make generalized :
o matter from what
n
accusations that the admin-
sources.
istration is "escalating" the So much, then, for Laos:
war in general. President it will be, for us, aerial busi-
Nixon, for his part, is stolid-
ness as usual so long as the
ly preparing to take them. Communists keep coming
on as to their real and cep- down the line through Laos.
tral objective, which is to A
this col-
to Cambodia
,
s
-.force him to halt American umnist can report the fol- ident Nixon's fixers policy
bombing of the North Viet- lowing matters of fact: for a gradual withdrawal of'
'' namese Communist enemy's The United States govern- A m c r I c a n ground forces'
troop and supply trail run from Vietnam. The steady
mcnt had nothing whatever
boring-Laos.-
To hear Mr. Nixon talk in
a private of these matters is
to find a remarkably relaxed
President, in all the circum-
? stances. if he is not indeed
a happy warrior - which
!would be foreign both to his
? temperament and his meth-
od least of a operation warrior with e a t cer-
tain gleam in the eye who
does not shrink from the
political form of unarmed
combat that lies ahead.
The impression is clear
that if the far-out peacenik
people push him into it, he
is prepared to go direct to
the country to defend these
bombing actions without a
chemical trace of apology.
He is ready, that is, to say
that to hit and interrupt the
Yo Chi Minh supply line is
demonstrably to save the
in this affair. .?t. c+ 1970, United Feetur? Bsodkaq
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,bodia of the more or less -meaning the increasing
neutralist Prince Norodom. combat effectiveness of the'
Sihanouk in favor of the South Vietnamese-is entire-.
anti-Communist successor re- ly satisfactory to the admin-
gime now in power. Siha- istration.
nouk has, of course, now' The President will con-
-been taken up by the Com- tinue to bring out ground
munists as their new martyr .troops when and as-and
to "American imperialism" only tytwh en1ani tat as -he thinks';
sntl all tltht,
THE TRUTH IS that this going to speculate in public
about date's or number's' or'
government, which is al-
ready moving everything it I n d e e d, one observer's'!
possibly can in honor to get 'strong-and possibly wrong !
out of the only war now in -
impression is that the:'
being in Southeast Asia, president is not even likely
wants to see Cambodia kept to speculate too much about!
neutral. Most certainly-and this business to his own Cab-;
most demonstrably, if one inet. For he knows where
thinks about it for a moment. the buck' must and does stop
Washington does not want. in thfs&'sort of decision. On
to see. any situation to arise this one, the educated guess
In which Washington might is that he will really caucus
be asked to take any kind of. only In his own hat.
lives of American troops in mow;,. .?
rough ratio to how many
North Vietnamese soldiers,
and how much enemy arma-
ment our pilots can knock,
down and thus keep out of
.the action in South Viet-
nam.
HIS POSITION is that
anybody who supposes that"
an American president has
not got a manifest duty to,
protect the lives of this na-..
tion's own troops to the li-
mit of his ability, in a way
carefully and precisely cal-
,culatcd to do ? no harm to
anybody or anything except.;
the armed enemy intruders into Laos, can believe pretty
well anything. '
J
In a word, he is-resolved''
them is armed. Not one of
them is any sort of agent, di
rect or indirect,, of the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency..
Nothing that has so far
happened In all this ball of
wax ? in Southeast Asia, and
nothing that Is seen as likely
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Now our federal government, pushed by
../the CIA and Pentagon, is expanding the
and Thailand, the American people should,'.
be reminded of the following:
When Richard Nixon was. vice presi-
'dent, on April 17, 1954, he addressed news,
paper editors at Washington in what was.
supposed to be an "off the record" talk. He
tried to torpedo the Geneva Peace confer
ence, then about to begin, by saying: "If, to
avoid further Communist expansion in Asia
and Indochina we must take the risk now by
putting our boys in, I think the executive
has to take the politically unpopular step to
Word leaked out the following day of
what Nixon had said. The story was pub-
lished. Americans should note that this is
the same man who, since entering the
White House, has been assuring the people
"all we are interested in is to see the Viet-
namese get the right of self-determination.".
That right was, thwarted when the late
John Foster Dulles led the drive that prej
vented the free elections in Vietnam speci=
tied at Geneva. The CIA and Pentagon ap-
plauded. Since then, a succession of federal
administrations has convinced our, people
we had to go there and Invade Asia or.the
Vietnamese, with no bombers or Navy,!
would come over and attack us. Some 50,000
of our men have died In combat or of tropi-
cal diseases because of our gullibility: lit
this really what the "silent majority'
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By RICHARD BANGS Cambodia neutral, Mr. Pfeiffer ported the victims as Viet Cong.
Montana Kaimin Staff Writer said. The new government has co- He said he could support his state-
operated with U.S. and South Viet- ment with findings of the Interna-
The overthrow of Prince Siha- 'nam governments in the Vietnam tional Control Council of Cambo-
nouk and the establishment of a war, he said. . . . ` .. dia.
military government in Cambodia Mr. Pfeiffer said he won't be, The council 'reported that it
? was a calculated conspiracy of the satisfied that the United States was found'only the bodies of. Cambo-
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, not involved until a congressional dians and no Viet Cong In the at-
tack areas in Cambodia. According
S
f
.
Z001-! committee has investigated U.
E. W. Pfeiffer, professor o
ogy, said yesterday. . Involvement in Southeast Asia and' to U.S. sources, the attack areas;
Mr. Pfeiffer recently returned gotten some concrete . responses near the town ot'Mimot, were the
from Cambodia, where he Investi- from Washington. He said the strongholds of VIII Cond.
gated defoliation damage caused committee should also look at the :'.?'f_,,~
by the U.S. Army. documents of the International
He said the overthrow of the . Control Council and see what its
Cambodian government was the' findings are.
culmination of Increased U.S. In. ? The International Control Coun-
volvement in Cambodia. ,, ell is an investigating committee
Mr. Pfeiffer said the V.S. mural- established by the United Nations.
tions, ship, Columbia Eagle, which to determine who, if anyone, was
was mutinecred in the Cambodian at fault in Cambodia.
harbor, may have carried muni- Mr. Pfeiffer said the United
tions which were used to put down States also has bombed and strafed
Prince Sihanouk. Cambodian civilians and the Cam-
Prince Sihanouk tried to keep bodian army and U.S. pfficials re : ;
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3 April, 1970 ?
Duffey .A.sks
South AsiallL
Role ' Of CIA
WEST ii'ARTFORD
(AP) -- Maintaining that "the
American disaster, in Vietnam
has shown the dangers of se-
cret governmental activity in un-
stable nations,". Joseph. Duffey
called Thursday 'for ? a Senate
investigation of the Central In-
telligence A g c n c y ' s role in
Southeast Asia.
Duffey, national chairman of
Americans for Democratic Ac-
tion, is also a candidate for the
Democratic U.S. Senate nomina-
tion.
Duffey said. the investigatior
is needed "to confirm or dispel
allegations that CIA operatives
played a role in a .recent coup
resulting in the ouster of Cam:
bodia's Prince Sihanouk.
"The future of all Americans'
is affected by CIA operations in
this and ol.her "sensitive areas
of the world. The American peo-
ple no longer can nermit these
activities to proceed in total se-
crecy, free of restraint by Duh-
lie or 'Congressional opinion,"
Duffey said. 1 1.
11 Duffey also asked that the in-
vestigation look into the "veiled
activities, both past and present,
of the CIA in. Vietnam."
"The American people,"' he
said, -"need to be told the full.
story behind ' our tragic allytmis-
guided,' . policy, in Vietnam.:?and,
Ite ;neighboringodia~and
liament, which unanimously ousted the Long Cheng (map, page 32). And by spark
Prince from his job .as Cambodia's Chief the weekend, Thailand had leapt into North Vietnam." Once in China, where this stun
d
Iie
S
atc
l ni Stdevelopmenttldiplomatsfwere won-, craft, hundreds of regularltroops to sore Chou wa Ens S hanouk charged hat his d
Suddenly,las Laotianthbdase of the C.I.A. and h nted thatcheem ghtyt y tov
the deri eri whether up for Cambodia's might Cheng. beleaguered
be shaping up French, the war in Vietnam had spilled stage a counter-coup. But whether the
woul
unists
neighbors as well. Com
pen to question. For
achieve and a predomi- b ckrin power wad
see Sih Sihanouk 's downfall events that amidst a, be- av naked struggle lines
wild rush o Po 34 with the Prince out, the way might now
imponderable threat to the Nixon Ad- nance,over all of Indochina (page );
be open for the North Vietnamese Army
ministration's carefully nurtured plans for. But if the dominoes were teetering,
a gradual withdrawal from South Viet- no ecould prdthe ic discouraging which way they, to Forosee~mowill mont, mbodia. nothing
am. For the first time in recent memory, might all. Despite g g news.
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The citizen is pretty much in the ;
-dark so far, as war in Cambodia is
concerned because. few. persons lcnowr?
what. is going on behind the scenes.
That has been true of the war in Viol;
nam and the war hi Laos.
'The citizen knows what the' Whii.
House is saying and knows. w_ hat the
? .various competing politicians and geri-
few who, are directly involved. The,1l
realizing it? No one knows but the
on in secrecy-what is being done,]
for, example,. by the CIA. Are: we
the public knows what's on the; surface.
orals are saying in, Cambodia'. In short,
The one thing that is ' certain is ,
that our neonle will not be happy about I
President himself could be deceived.
every other, country in which there
tiro', Communist factions that might
yullsCale ,WaS' in' Cambodia,: Laos and,
east Asia: then we -should' 'be- waging
;:de isively.'defeat Communists :: where- 1
^e~r, :they .rear; their; heads in.iSouth-;l
1, 'east "'A'sia:', If what ' is imperative JS O
ga.'about is we must,, at all costs,
t.those%-who believe that no matter bow
!,Thai, only people' .who.,,want- us to.1
I-C one: ,o't .the ,'biggest.: ;and-::perhaps the
'`irito . Cliina we would have taken on
',-Chinese:-were. enjoying- sanctuary.
(Une' difference is that:.had::we gone
across the` line . ,into, China, i where'.the
',they` refrained'. -from sending; -bombers
the UN forges were fighting, with. one j
.hand ,; tied ,.'behind. their back;'.because':
The situation js, in, a sei se, simil.a
~'. wlrich~'.to,; striicit :-'against,; American
all-out war in ' Cambodia (as- well' as,
Laos) because, for example, 40,000 tof
60,000 North' Vietnamese troops have
been using the border jungles of Cam-
bodia for years as sanctuaries from
the war in Vietnam it, .could easily be..
argued that we should be waging an
,want; to'i pull out. of ' war in Vietnam, l
?..pnlytoget deeper', and ,; deeper into'
`that. President Nixon is making `.that,
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? a fine souvenir of your country. It will
Cambodia S'ips look great in my bathroom." The girl nodded at the portrait, and
turned to gaze through a chill morning
rain falling on the streets. She was
think- ing about it.Finally she shook her head.
"Your offer is'kind and generous," she said. "But I think not. We might need the.,
portrait again."
Of civil Way Although the cleric, like all good Cam-
bodians last week, went through the mo-
1 tions of switching loyalty and vowing
By Wesley Pruden, Jr. eternal fealty to a new government, she,:
Fuoat PHNOM PLFII I j, like all prudent Cambodians, kept her :j
You would never guess It from the fingers crossed. And her options open.
slothful pace of this sleepy little capital. In fact, no one in all of the volatile
Bnt, last week, the risk of a Communist- Indochinese peninsula was willing to count
abetted, Laos-style civil war in Cambodia the erratic and flamboyant prince down
, was growing-and growing fast. and out for good. Neither the Thais nor
What happens here depends in large j the Vietnamese, Cambodia's closest and
measure on the decisions being made by mast natural rivals and those who would`
Prince Norodom Sihanouk, ousted In a seem to have the most to gain from a-,
bloodless coup, by his shaky successors,. rightist government here, were quite
and by the Communist leaders of Hanoi.., ready to celebrate, or even to crow.
Developments inside and outside Cam- 'Didn't Say By Whom'
bodia last week seemed to be pushing,; Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen
this Buddhist kingdom Into the same kind Cao Ky, an old hand at the business of
of internal warfare that has long plagued crafting coups, professed no surprise that'
neighboring Laos and South Vietnam. Sihanouk had fallen. Soberly he added the
Along the Cambodian border with South obvious: "it could lead to civil war, and
Vietnam, Communist Viet Cong troops re- If that happens the Cambodians are vul-'
portedly attacked Cambodian units, and, nerable to being taken over." He didn't;
as close as 35 miles from the Cambodian % say by whom.
capital Viet Cong agents organized an The next day Ky sent formal greetings,
antigovernment demonstration in a, pro- i to the new chief of the Cambodian state,`
vincial capital. South Vietnamese and Cheng Heng, and such care was taken tg.
Cambodian forces In the border areas say the right thing that his cablegram'
were collaborating in assaults upon Viet was released, then called back for more
Cong and North Vietnamese troops using I editing. The message that finall
i Cambodia as a sanctuary from the Viet- !I Y got,
nam fighting. Phnom Penh (which is pronounced as, if
if
'but'
The North Vietnamese and Viet Con wIt were ithout soe much as a hint of was glee.
withdrew their diplomats from Phnom ?;: "Recent events In Cambodia show the
Penh, scotching hopes of the new Cam- ! determination of the Khmer
bodian rulers that they could negotiate people `al
i with the Communists for the removal of safeguarding tX g y said, ad nadd and national
the 40,000 to 60,000 Communist troops en- Is also the e the that "This,
the'
camped In the nation's eastern border- In the n the will
struggle el of the Vietnamese people
'lands.
against Communists in the;
And in that Prince Sihanouk an- past few years. Therefore I hope this com-,
poundd that Peking, was forming a "nation- s. ? mon sense is basic in uniting friendship
; he al liberation army" In Cambodia. He 1 and co-operation between the two coup
,urged the Cambcdlan people to Initiate tries.
"guerrilla warfare" against the new?i Bangkok's Position
Cambodian government. Though Russia :1 A few hours later Bangkok (which lilce'
and Red China refrained from openly en- Saigon does not maintain diplomatic re.
,dorsing the prince's war cry, North Viet- ,. lations with Cambodia) all but ruled out
nam and the Viet Cong pledged "full sup- any sort of military help to the new
"re
i port" to the prince. gime. A spokesman for the Thai govern-
Despite all the shouting and shooting, ment agreed that Sihanouk's threat to,
this city seemed unperturbed. An anec- return to organize a guerrilla war might,
dote illustrates this city's attitudes. jeopardize the new government, but even :
One morning last week, a guest at Le so Phnom Penh should seek help from A.
.Royal Hotel leaned across the reception third country" (the United States) or.,
desk, winked at the dark and slender girl through the Southeast Asia Treaty Or
behind it, and pointed toward a portrait ganization (SEATO).
of Prince Sihanouk lying forlornly on a, . The betting here is that the new re-
nearby
table. The clerk had just taken; gime has a fair chance to survive It the
!the portrait down from a place of honor 1i Cambodians-or Khmers, as they pre-.
and appropriate prominence behind the ter to call themselves-fall to heed S han-
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NEW TRIAL ASKED
E FOR GREEN BERET
Defense Says Vital Witness
Was Ordered Away
9iad become as well publicized
as one involving the commander
of the 5th Special Forces. In
that' case, the Army dismissed
the charges on Sept. 29 for lack
e
nam shortly after
------ f Christmas and attempted tni of available C.I.A. witnesses.
sotmet taTtu:;rwYortTlmts, i reacn captain McCarthy, whom ""' `'""`` 'w"u ..apt.am mc-
WASHINGTON, March 28= he had known since 1960 when Carthy guilty and sentenced
Lawyers f the'captain served under him n to hard labor for life. But,
or Capt. John J. Mc- J. the 10tl i
in a move that Pentagon and
S
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al Forces in
Carthy, convicted of murder, in 'Germany. Army officials agreedwas rare,
Vietnam in 1968, have appeaed 14e was questioned by mili- he was not discharged or strip.
After a new trial, charging that Lary authorities about the na- ped is rank,
the Army deliberately ordered Lure of the testimony he would Atehe returned the
give but was denied United States to urned o begin serving'
a?vital defense witness away permission his . sentence, he (l from the
he
from the original trial because to `get in touch with Captain award and a medal from
his testimony might reveal the McCarthy. th le lt18th Brigade of Khmer Scrai, apparently for
extent of secret American o er- the military they, felt he had
p y police Corps in d donefor, them.
ations in Cambodia. Saigon, Colonel Fontaine was Since the trial, a succession
Papers filed with the Army, carrying out a classified mission
of his own, and "it was decided of reviews has reduced the cap-
Court of Military Review stated that due to the nature of my itain's sentence to 20 years. He
'th
h
at t
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,u.o, own mission, the time frame
'Sully H. Fontaine, then a major, and, the emergency situation
was.well acquainted with Cap- created by the Tet offensive,
taro McCarthy, his Green Beret I should pursue my own mission
operations and his dealings and because of that would not
with a Cambodian sect dedi- be available for the trial,"
I cated to the overthrow of the
legitimate government of Cam-
bodia, the Khmer Serai.
The paper also said that
Colonel Fontaine, "possessed
unique evidence about the al-
leged victim and knowledge of
Although Colonel Fontaine's ;.Not Well Publicized
detailed sworn statement is
classified, information from .,,They also question whether
unclassified statement disclosed
some details surrounding the
case.
Colonel Fontaine apparently.
arrived at his Longbinh post in
South Vi
t
The trial of Captain McCar-
thy was held in late January
although defense counsel was
not aware of Colonel Fontaine's
offer to help or his existence
as :u possible witness.
1--ul 0L.
and testimony from the Khmcri tempted to.subpoena
two Cam.
Serai. bodians who had worked for
Captain McCarthy's lawyers, the Green Berets along with
asserted that when Colonel Fon-I the' alleged victim. .
tame told his superior that he! The Army denied that it had
had this evidence and could the`.power to force these men
testify for the defense, he "was, to :testify since they were not'
advised by a superior officer,;. United States citizens. How-
Lieut. Col. Solley, not to make ',ever, it was not denied that
his presence known to the ap- the. two Cambodians were then
pellant and was thus rendered working for, a secret American
unavailable to the defense at agency.
trial." Defense Department sources
Suppression Charged indicated that it was, possible
The appeal for a new trial that Colonel Fontaine was more
also charged that a report by, M
deepl cCarthyvinvetheltintelligence
the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation had been kept hiddenl 'work in which the Green Berets
from the defense and that a X,and the Central Intelligence
prosecution expert witness had', Agency used Cambodians for
changed parts of his testimony; missions in their own country.
crucial to the prosecution's;: These sources believe that
I case. I, the Army would have preferred
A against
An Army spokesman refused.. to drop the charges,
V
let -Colonel Fontaine, who has
said that the law forbade the
Army to comment on a case un- a long and colorful history with
der judicial review. A formal the Special Forces, testify about
reply in court is ex to American, involvement in Cam.
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The Land In Between: The Cam-
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. bias throughout the book,
bodlan Dilemma, by Maslyn .
Williams (William Morrow his remarks are worth noting
N.Y., 1970, 241 pp. $795)
By TOM FOLEY
Maslyn Williams' book on Cam-
bodia, "The Land In Between,"
will probably have its success
assured by the recent pro-U.S.
militaty coup in , that small
Southeast Asian kingdom, which
ousted Pince Norodom Sihanouk,
the legal chief of state.
. Williams, an Australian writer
on Asian politics, is no Wilfred
Burchett. But he did spend part
of 1969 in Cambodia, and his
book contains many insights into
the situation which has erupted
into the headlines.
Cambodia has for long been
the envy of its neighbors, who
would like to seize and annex
parts or all of it. The country
is one of Asia's "rice-bowl"
areas, and is probably unique
in that it produces enough food
to feed its own seven million
people, 80 percent of them small
independent peasants' (there is
no feudal landlord class in Cam-
bodia).
As Williams points out. Cam-
bodia is thinly populated for an
Asian country. It least half its
area is forest, and a good part.
of the remainder is grazing
land.
Not only Thailand and' the
Saigon regime would like to
take over this rich land. but
Williams notes that U.S. and
Australian interests are eager
to "develop" the country's tim-
ber and grazing land. The great-
er part of this "undeveloped"
land lies along the Thai border
to the west and in the north-
east, where Cambodia, Laos and
South Vietnam come together.
Williams visited the latter re-
gion, where the U.S. and Saigon
claim that a so-called "Sihanouk
trail" runs, where thousands of
"Vietcong" are supposed to be
hiding, and where the "North
Vietnamese" are alleged to have
pan airfield to fly a supply air-
lift into South Vietnam. Since
here:
"On the question of the air-
strip . . at the time of my Williams found it a sleepy little
visit it was overgrown with port with one Japanese frieghter
head-high grass. As for the road unloading its cargo in one of the
that 'takes five-ton trucks,' I six docks. More important, how-
talked to three men who drove ever, for understanding the eco-
along it in a Landdrover and nomic basis of some of the re-
had to walk the last two miles cent political events is the fact
to the border with their heads that the Cambodians were just
bent to avoid overhanging jungle
growth.
"I walked a short way into
the forest, on some of the small-
er tracks and found them over-
grown to an extent that prevent-
ed the passage of a car, and
noted with some disquiet) that
they were marked with elephant
and other animal tracks that
had not been overprinted by'any
wheeled vehicle, other than. a
bicycle, for -several weeks at
least."
This is the "Sihanouk trial" of
legend and story, through which
hundreds of trucks are supposed
to roar daily down from Hanoi
into South Vietnam bearing tons
of supplies-according to the
U.S.-Saigon Psychological War- book worth reading, particularly
fare Operations Center in down-
town Saigon!
There is a minor rebellion of
sorts going on in this corner of
Cambodia, inhabited by simple
tribal people. Reports from
U.S.-Saigon sources claim it is a
"Communist" led revolt headed
by Vietnamese Communists and
is a bent on overthrowing Siha-
nouk. Williams' comment on this
I thinif, is devastating: "But
how isi it that so many of the
weapons supplied by the CIA.?"
Williams' chapter on Sihanouk-
ville, Cambodia's new port city
on the Gul f Thailand, is par-
ticularly nteresting in view of
the U.S.-Saigon charge that the
"Vietcong" receive 85 percent of
their supplies through it, tons
and tons every day.
First of all, SihanoukviIle has
no cranes and all supplies must
be laboriously unloaded by hand.
finishing the last 60 miles of,
railroad to tie in Sihanoukville
with the capital of Phnom Penh.
'Nearly all of Cambodia's ex-
port trade has to go along the
Mekong River. Williams writes:
"At present it is the Americans
who, dominating the politics of
-Saigon, hold the strings that
could strangle Cambodia's trade.
The new port of Sihanoukville
and the railroad, when complet-"
ed, would have ended that U.S.". threat forever and would have'
given Cambodia an economic in-''
dependence it' had never known
previously. As in Ghana in 1966,
the U.S. struck before this "take
off point" was reached. .
about the Cambodian past and
the ancient civilization of Ang
kor. Neither Sihanouk nor the
Cambodian people can ?,nder-
stood without reference to the
terrible history which saw the t
Cambodian empire destroyed, its
people sold into slavery, and its
temples and palaces (like Ang-'
kor) left to revert back to jun-
gle. .
Many people, including their
ellow Asians, find the 'Cambo-
dians a difficult people to get to
know-enigmatic, like the smile
carved on the faces of the star tues found at Angkor after cen-
turies of being hidden. This book
should help to clear up some of
the mystery of Cambodia,
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By Stanley Karnow word for it," Ma ? 'ld said. Born in South Vietnam's But in 1967, according to ealed in wa~d ATI N
J Judging from (!!hcr evi- Mekong D e 1 It a of part- formation revrs.
weshlnc[on Post Foreign service TL
HONG KONG, March 27 dense available here, there 'Cambodian parentage, Son i inngton in January, Son's movement were re-.
is reason ouster that Si- Ngoc Thanh was a veteran, crusted by the U.S. Special; engi aThe Chinese Communists eercd's ouster was ad.' nationalist who originally Forces as guides and inter-"
re striving to implicate the n veered by his domestic ad move
ition with st VI,
a
etnamese Commun st bases
United States in the ouster apparently aimpr vised was at the Communists coalagainst thpreters in forays again
of Prince Norodom Sihan? the last minute rather that French and paradoxically inside Cambodia.
ouk as Cambodia's chief of planned long in advance. -regarded Sihanouk as too., That Cambodian dissi-
state in an apparent effort Over the years, however,' moderate. dents were used by the at e
came
to discredit the new Phnom Cambodia has been a cock- His ambitions frustrated, i cial es
MC-
John a Me
Pcnh regime's proclaimed pit of conspiracies by a wide Son later sought refuge in , trial of es Capt.
Green of Bof-
allegiance to neutrality. . variety of Chinese, Vietnam- Thailand, where he was ficer art o convicted Jr., a of Beret ere
Screi killing a
to alleged cov- ese, dissident Cambodian joined by Sam Sary!, a high-
a
Khmer
Referring
ert American operations in and American agents.. !who ]had broken with Siban' suspected of Communist af?,
Cambodia in the past, an of-'+ , And Sihanouk, who tried '
ficial New, China News to maintain his equilibrium ouk. They called their resist- filiations.
Peking of allega-
Agency commentary trans- , by balancing the assorted . ance movement the "Khmer its catalogue
mitted here today accused! v pressures working on him, IISerei tions
1958 disappointed charged the today, United States the United States of having 1 often used the intrigue to +by In UJul,
.Syrefusal to help him with having shipped "high
"always" regarded Sihan- his own advantage. from Saigon to
oak's neutrality "as a stum? 1 As far back as 1967, while in 9 border dispute with' explosives"
bling block" to Its policy of.; vehemently denying in pub-' South Vietnam's President Phnom Penh in May 1963 in Sihanouk.
"aggression and ,war in liethat there dre Vietcong abruptly h recognized Sihanouk ~rActually,~ther"plot" uncov- , Diem, Asia." at that a
Consequently, the agency troops in Cambodia, Sihan- China. eyed by Sihanouk
} commentary said, successive ouk relied on U.S. intelil- Considering this virtually time was an alleged conspir?
Washington administrations i, gence reports from 'Saigon an act of hostility, the That icy to assassinate Liu Shao-C "resorted to many sinister for information on Commu- and Saigon regimes con- Chef the sta eh inesew former who
tactics" aimed at subverting nlst deployments in'` hispired with a Cambodian >fl cl~l as VIM
the prince's on a state visit to Cambodia.
authority. country. ,provincial `governor named i Today's New China News
apparently
Among these tactics, the The intelligence reports; Dap Chhuon . Tto rebel againstAgency dispatch ws
many of which consisted of Sihanouk. The aim of the re- omitted that detail, since
Chinese statement claimed, aerial photographs of Com- bellion was.to turn the gov-
Co been
were U.S. plots to overthrow munist bases taken by U.S. ernor's province . of Siem? Liu iu ed by Shaochi Chinese has been
Sihanouk and purM-
-sup.' :reconnaissance a I r c r a f t, reap into a Khmer Serei. nist leader Mao Tse-lung
-
ported military intrusions were relayed to the Prince base. uring leader Cultural -tun
i into Cambodia by South Vi- through the Australian Em- Sihanouk claimed after turn. ~.
etnamese and Thai troops. bassy in Phnom Penh and, wards that the CIA was be Informed sources have,
When the, prince was in accepted by him as reliable. hind the abortive coup,,'
Paris earlier this month, But' in earlier years, as since an American comma-; ince indicated that the pur
the Peking commentary the Chinese Communists,'nications specialist, Vieto~ported plot against Liu was
said, "U.S. imPerrtus t eveo with someI Matsui, was discovered in really invented by Sihanouk.
took the opportunity to measure 'currently of claim wvalidity, Sihan the rebel headquarters. i as a pretext to crack down
instigate the rightist group of on Chinese . Nationalist ele-.
:ouk was indeed the target { South Vietnamese under- meets in Phnom Penh that
of Cambodia to stage the lots organized by his Cam-. cover agents who had di-), he had been seeking to slim
coup d'etat" that deposed bodian opponents in cooper- rected the uprising sabre mate.
him on A4arcti 18. ation with the South Viet- entry explained that Mat- In January 1968, following
Sen. Mike Mansfield of namese, Thais and the U.S. ru
Sihanouk's leadin 'ens presence on. the scene:
Mont.) who has been one of Central Intelligence Agenc was only "accidental". They a Period of friction with Pe-
can admirers, affirmed fol. Ameri- 1 Pr Special Forces. disclosed, however, that the, king, the Prince uncovered a
bomb plot" directed
The main Cambodian dis-~ CIA had financed the oiler- against Yugoslav President
United' the coup that the 'sident movement employed) ation.
States was not in. against Sihanouk in those! In the years following I Tito, who was then _ sched-
vo lved in the Prince's re?, that - failure, Son Ngoe uled to visit Cambodia. But
days was the Khmer 5ere1 1 that time, accordingi to S[;
moval. "I'3I give yott m rco Khmers), led by Son Thanh lived in Saigon, com- that ti the port had been
41,119 oc Thanh. The word -, plaining to rare visitors able' laid by , Chinese Comma-
"Khmer" is tfie Aaclent_to locate his clandestine lair . ,.. ; .. ~t
....
r.name for Cambodian. , that he was bein Aegieeted :; assts.
for t,
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These Days
'i
By John Chamberlain'.
1v s renuy --
Domino Can Fall Two Ways' ', impotent giant, is in absolutely no position to
capitalize on the fact that dominos can fall, two.y
Whatever may come of it in the end, the. ouster, ways. If we had not been so weakened by the of Prince Norodom Sihanouk in Cambodia has, Fulbrights and the Mansfields at home, we could,be'i
proved, for one shining moment, that a domino can 1 jumping in at this point to put the fear of the Lord 4
fall the other way. into the hearts of Communists everywhere. We
Since the Cambodians have a reputation for could have-publicly proclaimed that we were cotly
the Vietnamization but also the
t
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ng no
er
?
being an unusually docile people, and since the sup-
Asiaticizing" of the war in Southeast Asia.
f Pnompenh
porters of the coup in the capital city o were part of Sihanouk's own establishment in the General Albert Wedemeyer and former A'i?
past, it could Abe surmised romantically that the Gene
bas Gene William D. Fawley, neither of whom
provocation that caused'the domino to topple in an,
L__ a__ thinks we should fight a-ground war with Ame,?i-
have
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n the Asia
mainla
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p
much to take for anyone who calls himself a man. can conscr
argued that it would be a? winning strategy to.
One is fleetingly reminded of an old title; "The,
Mouse that Roared." replace American troops in South Vietnam with
soldiers from willing Asian nations. Pawley's
Realistically, however, It must be admitted I suggestion is. that some portions of Chiang Kai?
shek s army of 600,000 might be landed, not in
Siht oue talked keation has boon teer?all atom and , ;South Vietnam itself, but In the udomlittarlaed,l'
tolerated ed the presence pr aof Nor neutralist of North line, but Vietnamese and or DMZ, lone that is now being exploited ille?
to
Viet Cong troops in the jungles of northeastern gally by the North Vietnamese. The mere dis? ;
Cambodia for years. The Cambodians`occasion- patch of lend-lease lancing craft from the U.S.
ally grumbled, but they' went along with their to, Taiwan would surely have a sobering effect
Peking and Moscow, to.say nothing of Hanoi. ,
ruling Prince in his decision not to annoy the
Communists of Hanoi, Moscow, and Peking.
Alas! We can't utilize .the.symbols of power to
So it can't be that the mouse became a roaring bring hopes to anti-Communists in Cambodia or any
lion just because the Communists were using north- I where else. The New Mobe dissenters, the doves in
eastern Cambodia as a sanctuary and a military' the Senate, the Berkeley and Santa Barbara rioters,
springboard. The overall situation must have and the anti-historical teachers of history such as
changed sufficiently to make it seem that the North, Professor Staughton Lynd, have made us even more
Vietnamese and the Viet Cong were'! not going to feeble than Prince Sihanouk when it comes to taking
be sure-fire winners after all in, a war for the whole frontal' stands against the Communists. but the
Indochinese peninsula. Nixon Administration, in its willingness- to give the
It could be that the new Cambodian chief of 'Thieu government in Saigon the time to get set, for
ictory against the ''Viet Cong on its own, may
state, Chong Heng, and the new premier, Lieutenant a v have saved the day. The fall of the Cambodian
General Lon Nol, had become convinced that the
,- . domino in an anti-Communist direction was total
,_
th Vi
t
in Sou
e
nam
h it
not
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to succeed. How else is one to explain they unexpecteu. Even thoug
"'-j
,going Aenris it argues that successful "Vietnamizatio .
be interpreted, however falsely, as a CIt~t plot;
D. C.? r+"r
batched in Washington
,
The coup seems all the more astounding when-
one considers the recent North Vietnamese sue
cesses in overrunning the Plain. of Jars in Laos:and'i
reaching out beyond that for areas that grow useful'!
.crops of rice and opium. If the men who are'
ruling, at least for the moment, in Cambodia l
thought the 50,000 North Vietnamese soldiers in.Lao&'
were really so fearsome, wouldn't they have, been
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Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and worked to end I
? the war in Laos on the basis of the 1962 Geneva Agree-
ment.
This policy cost Cambodia heavily, in daily U.S.-
Saigon air raids which killed and wounded hundreds
of peaceful Cambodian villagers, in CIA-led armed re-
bellions inside Cambodia, in U.S. threats to invade
Ca b d1. d t h S'h
m
`Vietnamizing' Cambodia
World opinion will hold the United States directly
responsible for any future strife involving Cambodia,
?where a pro-U.S. rightist military group has seized po-
. wer and proclaimed the ouster of Prince Norodom Si-
hanouk.
The Cambodian coup comes at a time when the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is active all over the ~h .
world: the attempt on the life of President Makarios."
of Cyprus, the abortive coup against the new People's.
Republic of the Congo-Brazzaville the intensification of /~
the CIA "dirty war" in Laos, involving the use of U.S.
and Thai ground troops and a U.S. terrorist air bom-
bardment.
Cambodia, under Sihanouk, stood up to Washington's
empire builders and defied ? them. This is why the U.S.
for years tried to overthrow Sihanouk.
Sihanouk immediately recognized the new Provl-
sional Revolutionary Government of. South Vietnam last
year as the real representative of the South Vietna-.
mese people, developed -close and ,friendly ties with the"*
o s an o crus anouk with force.
Both the DRV and PRG have branded the Cambo
than coup a CIA operation, and there are few who
will doubt it considering the background of the coup.
Sihanouk, according to U.S. news reports, is still im-
what it is-"Vietnamization" means spreading the Viet-
nam war all over Southeast Asia.
If a Cambodian revolt against the millionaire pro-
U.S. General Lon Nol produces a second Vietnam in
this hitherto neutral country, Nixon and the CIA will
have to be given the full credit for that kind of ."Viet-
mensely popular In Cambodia and the new regime is
nervous about any attempted return he might make.
The Nixon administration's pious humbug about
"Vietnamization" in the light of developments in Laos,
Cambodia and Thailand can now be pinned down for
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ventlonal and i n I r a r e
aerial photographs, radio
monitoring, readings from
electronic sensors a l o n g
the border, agent reports,
.prisoner interrogations
and other sources.
.It is not known when
'.Cambodia agreed to the
secret arrangement. It was
certainly flowing freely
after Washington a n d
Phnom Penh resumed dip-':
lomatic relations in July,.
10G), and may have-begun
"0 1
Secret Accord to Inform Prince
About Red Infiltration 'Disclosed'' 6
S4ICON-prince Norodom Sihan- pronouncements, S I h a n o u k had Viet Cong. This agreement
ouk, now ironically exiled in Red; i,luntly expressed the hope ' thut_ permitted the Provislonai
China, was so fearful of growing cast can withdrawal from south- ' Revolutionary Govern-
cast Asia would not be too hasty.
Communist infiltration into Cambo- The contacts leading to Operation. 'meet of the Viet Cong to
dia last year that he accepted -a' Vesuvius were. arranged , through-' move .supplies over Cam-
secret intelligence arrangement with i diplomatic channels of a friendly.- bodlan territory.
the Americans to get more precise ? country and did not involve the ? / ? it was speculated at the . :
Information about what was hap-''.Central Intelligence 'Agency,. for. time that Sihanouk ?re-
pening in his own country, which Sihanouk has a particular
As far as can be determined, that,' dislike. However, the CIA was kept,.
informed
. .
secret arrangement, code-named Ve-
suvius, was still in operation at the The South Vietnamese govern..',
time Sihanouk was ousted by a ment was also not a part of, the
before then through pri-?'
vate channels.
Sihanouk may . h a v e
timed the beginning, of,
Vesuvius to coincide with
,'the renegotiations for a
.trade igreement'he
newed the agreement pri-
marily to Insure at least
some Information from the
Viet Cong about an opera-
military coup March 18, ,operation although President Icguy . tion he had little power to.'
The operation, which channeled to ' en Van Thieu may have been control. ' ' . .
' the suspicious prince a wealth of.i , indirectly informed of some aspects... Although the knowledge
precise information on the numbers k.i Began es One-Way Flow of Vesuvius was obviously''
and location of Communist forces in ' The operation began with the hope extremely restricted on
Cambodia, was regarded in thee, of improving U.S. diplomatic lever bout aides of the border, It
American diplomatic community asp age by secretly providing Sihanouk must have been available
a major success. with detailed and absolutely accur , to' the top officers of the
Accepts Information as Accurate ate information concerning the ? Cambodian army and to.
Despite his many.and vocal reser-: ? movement of North Vietnamese and, ..the premier, Lt. Gen. Lon
vations about the United States ' Viet Cong troops within his borders. Not. It may well have
Sihanouk evidently accepted the' It began as a one-way flow and may . been, although this is not
information coming to him through' have remained so although. there are known, that the premier,
',.Vesuvius as accurate, and he used it Indications that In clue course the ? always regarded as friend-
in his diplomatic efforts to curb, Cambodian authorities began to . her to the Americans than
Hanoi's intrusions. ? ' reciprocate with ? some information Sihanouk, was an element
Although U.S. authorities will not obtained from' their own sources. .in getting the operation
officially confirm such an arrange- , ? The information passed on' to tstarted.
ment with Cambodia, responsible Phnom Penh from Saigon was' At any rate, it was Lon
members of the American establish-:. mainly' from the U.S. Military Not and, the army com-
ment adniit privately that Vesuvius "Assistance Command Vietnam. ? mander, Lt. Gen. Nhlek
did exist. The details of this accounts It was coordinated ' at the U.S, Tiuiong, who were cited
? were obtained In' confidence early` Embassy in Saigon, presumably also by Sihanouk as his sources
this year but could not be written! In coordination with instructions when he began to use
.until now because of the'conditions' from Washington. It is not known figures early last year in
.under which they were learned. 'how the -information was passed. loudly objecting to the
" The existence of Operation Vesu- ,directly to Sihanouk but the MAY 'presence of some 40,000
vius was one of the very genulne' "was kept apart from normal diplo? North Vietnamese and
reasons why Washington had mixed- ' matic dispatches. Viet Gong troops In Cam
feelings about the downfall of, , ' The information had. been Bath- ~ bodia, That was in March, ,
Sihanouk, despite his diplomatic , .tired from sources far beyond the '1969, and S i h a n o u k' ?
juggling act with Moscow, :Peking resources of .the' Cambodians totem seemed unusually sure of
a,nd Hanoi. ",In his more ', tecent, ' ' the accuracy of his figures
j- and the' map locations, he
cited at the". me time.'':
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By GEORGE McARTIIUR
SAIGON (LAT)-Prince Norodom Sihanouk, now irons-`
ea11y exiled in China, was so fearful of communist infiltra-
tion into Cambodia last year that he accepted a secret
Intelligence deal with the Americans to get more precise
information about what was happening in his country.
So far as can be determined, that secret arrangement,
code-named Vesuvius, was still in operation when Sihanouk, i
was ousted by a military coup March 18.
The operation, which chan-
neled to the suspicious prince The South Vietnamese gov-'i
a wealth of information on crnment was not a pact of
the numbers and location of the operation, although
Pros-Communist forces in Cam- Ident Nguyen Van Thieu
bodia. was regarded in the may have been Indirectly in-
,..American diplomatic eom- formed of some aspects.
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matic juggling act with Mos.
cow, P(c.1cinfx and Hanoi. In
,more rdceni pronouncements.
Sihanouk tad hoped that
American withdrawal from',
southeast Asia would not be
hasty.
The contacts leading to
Operation Vesuvius were ar-
ranged through diplomat,io
channels of a friendly coun-
try and rlid not invoive the
U. S. Central Intelilgeneo
r? awuubw.. . - - q ..
ings about the downfall of
"learned.
ctions under which they were
.
a
y passed to Sihanouk but the
Details were obtained in con- ? flow was kept .-hr 4ha Van-0 hilt pt apart from
munity as a major success. U. S. Ifones f
Despite his many reserva- The operation began with
tions about the U. S., Stha- the hope of improving U. S..
noult evidently accepted the' diplomatic leverage by se-
information coming to him cretly providing Sihanouk
through "Vesuvius" a; ac- with detailed and ac!wrate
curate and used it in his dip, information on North .Viet- .11
lomat4c efforts to curb namese and Viet Cong troops
Hanoi's instrusions. within his boarders.
Although U. S. authorities It was coordinated at the
iwi11 not officially achnowl' U. S. Embassy in Salon,
edge such an arrangement presumably also in coordina-
members Cambodia. responsible tion with instructions :i'om
embers of the American Washington. It is not known
establishment admit private- how the information is
t Vesuvius did exist
1 th
though tits CIA was xept in-
formed.
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By HENRY GINIGER
8Mds) to The? New Yore ?Imes
PARIS, March 26 - South
Vietnam offered today to repa-
triate 343 sick and wounded
North Vietnamese prisoners of
f war but Hanoi's delegation
turned a deaf ear and instead
accused the allied side of "cam-
Quflaging" Its efforts to spread
the war throughout Indochina.
' The Communist delegations
?formally accused the United
States of being responsible for
the overthrow of Prince Noro-
dom Sihanouk as Cambodian
Chief of State last week in an
effort to promote enmity be-
I tween the Cambodian and Viet-
! namese peoples and to set As.
'fans against Asians.
The South Vietnamese offer
r made in.tho 69th piannry Nn*?
sion of the Vietnam peace talks,
was the same in nature as one
made last November concerning
62 North Vietnamese prisoners.
The Saigon delegation asked
only that Hanoi make some ar-
rangement to receive the pris-
oners, either directly or
through Intermediaries. - But
! Hanoi's persistent refusal. to
','acknowledge openly that it has
troops in South Vietnam and
to deal with the Saigon Gov-
ernment, which it regards as a
"puppet" of the United States,
was reflected in Its rejection
of what .a spokesman called "a
maneuver." Each side accused
the other of avoiding the basic
issues. , '.
Le Quang Hiep, the Hanoi
press spokesman, spoke of "pa-
triots" who had been arrested
In South Vietnam and who, he
said, should be released where
they happened to be. The Sai-
gon spokesman, Nguyen Trieu
Dan, said, his delegation was
acting for humanitarian reasons
in conformity with the Geneva
convention of 1948 on wpr pris-
oners.'He and Stephen Ledogar,
the American spokesman, said
they also hoped to "unblock",
an issue in the hope that "may-
be others will get unblocked."
But both North Vietnam and
the delegation representing the
Vietcong preferred to focus at-
tention on what they charged
word offnrth by 010 Nixon Ad?
ministration to' prolong the war
in Vietnam and to extend It to
Laos and Cambodia.
They also made more direct
their suggestions last week that
it was the United States,'
through the Centr. Intelligence
Agency, that offad brought
down the Sihanouk reclme in
Cambodia "with a view to
bringing Cambodia into its or.
bit and oblige her to leave the
path of independence and neu-
trality."
"Everyone knows we respect'
the sovereignty, integrity, In.
dependence.. and neutrality off
Cambodia," said Ly '.Van San,
the Vietcong press officer. He
and Mr. Hiep referred to Prince
Sihanbuk as still the Chief of
State but refused comment
when reporters pointed out that
the Prince himself had referred
to the presence of North Viet-
namese and Vietcong troops in
his country.
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- sf rikcs pushed aside, an-
Ii This country seems to be': ?archy is from coast to coast.
I` producing more revolution Unless we have some of our
t?: minded citizens than ever !.`,;much vaunted services we
thought possible. can depend on, this country
Until lately it was thought : is not going to endure very
the police, teachers, and long. With every young
{{` mailmen were the backbone,.- man with a faint heart run-
I of our civilization - now 'Wing around declaring the
'.,'they have put themselves in 1',1laws illegal and refusing in-
th
A
i
the class of undependables.
Of course there are many in
each class who are still de-
pendable, but the actions of
many of them have made
ks_ nearly everyone doubtful
regarding their dependabil-
ity.
The postal workers may
:1 have a grievance, but to take
It out upon all citizens is
rmy,
nto
e
duction
in a day or two. The new
government of Cambodia
states they will 'trot return
the ship to the U.S.A. as thg
act might be misunder
stood. Again a very minor
'snation tweaks our nose and
`` so far. has gotten away
with. it:,
I...:there is no need of a cen-
.tral representative govern-
ment. Perhaps all these
"anti" people would rather
have a Communist, govern-
ment where they would be
.:banished to Siberia or shot
:if they disobey lawful or-
::ders.
Already a number of
;' thousands of young men
.'slave fled to Canada to
:I escape the draft and re-
'''.iio'unced their citizenship.
- Some have tried to undo
'their acts, but cannot get
'''back into this country to
stay. The young deserters
who fled to Sweden are try-
ing to --undo their acts -~
.-without success.
If the postal workers keep)
up their strike, the sympa-
thy of the entire. country,
will change from support)
for then to hatred. The,
disruption of our civiliza-
tion is very bad and mil-'
lions of innocent people are:
being penalized through no
fault of their own.
outrageous. Perhaps I. their
1-Jay has been low,, but it
has been sure and steady.
During times of full employ-
ment they could have found
other employment.
The federal government
through the postmaster gen-
eral promises to get action
on a raise if the people keep
on the job. I don't know
what the hot heads hope to
r` gain by walking off the job.
if the President puts the
Army into the post office,
it may degenerate into a
game of freeze out. It is
doubtful if many of the post
offices employees are in a
' position to do without pay
i?' checks very long. In the ex-
citement of a general meet-
ing it may seem to be the
right thing to do to vote a
walkout, but to get back in
sometimes it is not so easy.
The laws forbid postal
strikes. The courts have or-
dered the strikers back to
work. If the orders of the
`qu %J riQi
.thc
[% ~nF l
When this is w r i t t e n
nothing has been done to
get the freighter back which
has been interned in Cam-
bodia. Seems to be a case,
of. North Korea all over
again. Not a very pretty
picture for the' balance of.
'the world. Turn the mmattcr
f a-ould probabacfi~
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The Cambodian government has advised Western bearing arms that
to ithe s cl si g''
down the port of Sihanoukville to what it says are ships bea
cong" in South Vietnam. The move was announced yes t to the diplomats in a
Phnom Penh.
n
special briefing by the Cambodian Foreign 0 ice -
A Foreign Office spokesman ,'encourage a U.S.-backed war northeast of the capital of Vien-?''
f I d hinn It said the tiane.
also disclosed that the Embassy ; over all o n 0 -
o f the Polish People's Republic ,. Lon Not government was sup- i Lao triio tic a Thai Front forces.
cwas being closed down, but.;' ported by the U.S. Central' I ha captured p ry.,
denied knowing why or whether' telligence Agency. by theiCIA-operated airl airline h A g;~
his meant a break in Polish-,., Neither the new ' Cambodian I
Cambodian relations, Poland; to- ., regime nor the U.S. has offered ' America." Angnet, admitted that.
_..:.,,..., o of 'their charges tis std served under the com- ..
getner wuun . a::d~d p???? .....w, ,
is a member of the International I that Sihanoukville was being' mand of the military
in
Control Commission (ICC) set , used for arms shipments to the sion in .Vientiane. He said MIS?
up by the 1954 Geneva Agree- National 'Liberation Front in ,January, 1968, he was sent to
ment to watch over Cambodia's South Vietnam. ? the U.S. base at Long Cheng and
neutrality. Sihanoukville, on the Gulf of 1 then to another base at Muong
Tai-
General Lon Not, the armed Thailand, was built in 1960 as a
I
! He said there were 600 Thai ''.
forces commander and new anti- new port city for Cambodia.
South ! troops at Long Cheng under joint.;
Communist' premier of Cambodia Previously, all traffic had to use
was reported to be on the verge "the Mekong River (through U.S.-Thai command, and that 40;'
of renaming Sihanoukville and ' Vietnam) to reach Phnom Penh. I Thai paratroop officers serve 40
proclaiming a republic. ?j'The main port facilities at Siha-?f La General Vong Ps se staff, ;"~
The reports, from official Cam noukville today are a loo! I 'while a more (officially listed
as "interpreters") ( iciatly super
bodian sources, said that in a',,''wharf reached by a 900
few weeks Cambodia's constitu- .cayseway. Ships of up to 15,000 ass" combat operationc. He also
sale c Long Cheng the CIA had
. tionai monarchy would be de- i'.,tons-can discharge cargoes on? .
clared abolished. The monarch- both sides of'the wharf, but this set up a communications center
Queen Kossartak-is under heavy is a rather slow process since ' for direct contact with Washing-
guard in Phnom Penh. Prince no cranes have been installed in ton
Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambo- the dock' area as yet. Siha_ nouk- ;
than chief of state, remains in ville still remains to linked l mercenary,. few "with published by `?
Peking, where he has announced to the interior by
he will forma liberation army Battles in northern Laos con- Vietnamese News Agency of the.,
to overthrow the Lon Not gov- '4,tinued yesterday around the main Democratic' Republic of Viet- "
t Ctk Be baof Long Cheng, 75 mile` M.
st~-
.oernme
Lon Not has already suspend-
ed all civil rights provisions of
the Cambodian constitution, un-..
der the "full powers" granted
him by the National Assembly
last week. He has accused Siha-
nouk of being a "dictator" and ?
of secretly signing an agreement
with the "Vietcong" to transship
arms from China across Cambo-
dian territory into South Viet
nam.
Warning by Pravda
Pravda, the Soviet Communist
Party newspaper, yesterday
praised Sihanouk's policy of neu-
aese
tralism and said any changes by
the Lon Nol, governme
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1p Hijackers
TI! Their Tale
By IAN BRODIE point and hold-control of the
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia ship, the Columbia Eagle, for
- The two young seamen four days. before they were
who hijacked an American granted political asylum in
munitions ship say they did .Cambodia. -
It to keep 10,000 tons of na. A political' storm has
palm bombs from being broken about the ship: Wash-
dropped nn Vietnam " ington wants it back but the
One-of them, Clyde McKay, new leader in Cambodia, Gen.
25, said cockily: "President Lon Nol, says he has no
Nixon says he-wants to - de- plans to return it.
escalate the war, so we The Leader
thought we'd help him a From talking to the hi-
bvious that
it
was o
bit. " jackets
ther man is Alvin McKay was the leader and
Th
e o
i Glatkowski, 20. Both are convinced Glatkowski to go
from California. along with It.
d
v w.,?
Capt.. Donal
4owerful looking. Glatkow-
er
he
Gf
ski is slightiand Very pallid.
McKay calmly told the
s-i.,..e..
Dater--I
L
we intended to to to Cam-
bodia.
We told them they, would
cooperate or we would sink
the ship right there."
Mckay laughed as he re-
called his moment of power:
"Naturally they cooperated."
"Wg held the ship util Sun-
We were further from the
coast than we thought.
"I thought we had only
200 miles to go but we ac-
tually had 700. This ship
-makes at best only about 17
amount of time." tion of a German sailor on a
rills to Stay Awake German ship during World
The two said they stayed I War II and from the examplq
awake by taking ampheta- , of what the Nuremberg trials,,
mine pills they got, from. the I snowea i rest mysea gu?ty
ship's tores and from other' If I were. just to comply and
Both resented the sugges-
Both laughed at Commu-1
nfst assertions that the ni-
jacking was a CIA plot to
supply arms toew gov-
ernment.:
"More like an SDS plot,"
Bald Glatkowskl. (Students
for a Democratic Society is
the militant student organi-
zation in the U. S. which has
led many of the campus riots.
Neither of the hijackers is a
member.but they are in sym-
j'pathy' with SDS alms.]
n "We are sympathetic with
the movement in Asia against
? be a part of threatening the I
people of Asia.
f "I thought it r uch bettor
"pill -popping, marl fauna = ] people who were around the
smoking hipplies!" tship and prevent myself from
Glatkowski said: "No, this ibeing part of a much larger-
Is absolutely false. We just scale threat against the peo-
took amphetamines to stay pie of Asia by' delivering these
awake because we had only th sands of naps b~oibs
two of us and we had to cov- S na..
.... ? ? teueeil:~ioimress
er each other's backs. We
couldn't afford to make fool-
ish mistakes
"
.
McKay said: "We 'couldn't'
become intoxicated in any
way because there were two
of us with a pistol each.
on the ship. People like .the
:.chief mate on the ship kept
all this time."
In Control
Asked if they had held a
{ gun at the captain's head
all the time, McKay said:
"No, we controlled the bridge
"Twenty-five. members of
the crew were in life boats
and then we informed eve
one on the ship-l8 t
e situation, was And that
was the reason for the aban-
don ship.
"I had the captain phone
from his office to the bridge
ordering an abandon ship.
"I told him who to leave
on board and who had to
go and I told him to tell
the mate on the bridge there
was a bomb aboard and this
guns pointing at both of
we told the captain what
to the captain's office, and
and I went to the chief
mate's office. We took him
noon right after lunch about
day:
all the time. We. told him,.
I of course, that. it there was
any trouble or slowddwn iris
I'lllnd him "
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LONDON (AP) - A number through a, financial slump. "In-
,of newspapers around the world Elation is not over we can al-1
`took a look during the past week ready see the shadow of a reces-,
'at the quality of American life sion Some call it a pause, oth
Breaking Down
,,and came up with some not so ers a slowdown. But no matter'.
complimentary observations. how you call it, it is a slump." which is accepted by the vast
ist China's New Chi- majority." It said this "has the
"The much-trumpeted Amer1-1,
Commun
4ean efficiency is breaking downi`na News 'Agency said the postal merit of. disarming the poten-
everywhere--transportation, strike was "dealing heavy blows tially very violent extreme
telephone service, hotels, shops, to the U:S.? monopoly capitalist right."
'
offices, the home," wrote Johnj'class." The Chinese agency said London's Sunday Telegraph
the striking postmen had to ov-
[Sampson, New York torte-
said the reasons behind the
I
spondent of the London Sun. ercome "all kinds of obstruction town overnight ouster of Prince Norodom Si-
"Commuting in New York hasland sabotage by the reactionary hanouk as chief of state in Cam-
become so hopeless that firms b bee-1authorities scab unions. podia "are veiled in Oriental
are losing millions of dollars -1 Madrid's Nuevo Diario said but "it is possible
cause employes arrive late inll ree- mystery,
the morning or have. to stay in Ithe next military base ag that the American Intel-
." invent between the United States y `unofficially m-
A orrespondent for Tokvo's and Spain should exclude the s fired the coup in the hope that
big Torrejon Air Force Base 16 the ri ht-wing military regime
Yo ctric ircus, mbun visited the miles from the Spanish capital. which has taken over from me
? rocktric establishment the psychedelic Such proximity, said the pa- prince will open Cambodia up to
York's eEast Side: "Unless New per," carries with it a risk that, the anti-Communist crusades."
are York's East Side: you cannot be compenstated in any crusades."
."
young, you can not earnest-
ly stay there for more than five iformt
The Guardian, a liberal Brit-
minutes," he reported.
The correspondent said he newspaper, called President
was told the young people there Nixon Is racial policy "cynical
"were living the hippie way of and disastrous.`
"If there was one basic princi-
-., fife to escape tom in uman an pie that motivated Dr. Martin
place Luther King Jr. and others who
'was mechanized ironical that t civthat th. he But it
took the race issue ti to the
where they came after their es- streets, it ace that racalism
cape was precisely the place can only be tackled when-it is
here modem machinery such g exposed," the guardian said.
ias lighting and chinery d amplifying
"Confront America with the is-
equipment was tput to use in sue and she may do something
,grotesque effect.
to exorcise it. Pretend it isn't
l
It
u
y,
a
T
rin,
La Stamps there, or that general economic
and social development will so-
mehow eliminate discrimina
tion, and you end up with mere-
ly the status quo. That is why
"Mr. Nixon's race policy is cyni-
cal and disastrous. It aims to let
white America get away with
things. for another untold num-
ber of years."
The Times of London said it
believed the Nixon administra-
tion had succeeded in finding
"an approach to the balance be-
tween reforja,and public order
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Cambodia's new rightist military regime reacted swiftly yesterday to a Radio
Peking broadcast in which Prince Norodom Sihanouk called for formation of a
"Cambodian national-liberation army" to carry on the "struggle against the Ameri-
can imperialists" and their puppets in Cambodia.
General Lon Nol, the Cambo- CIA role stressed the "Royal Lao" government's
dian armed forces commander, On Monday, "Quan Doi Nhan genuine interest in a peaceful
who headed the coup which pro- Dan," a Hanoi newspaper, blunt- settlement.
claimed Sihanouk's ouster last ly stated that "the coup in Cam- The LPF accused President
Wednesday, pushed ahead with bodia was staged with ? the par- Nixon directly of "escalating the
a purge of Sihanouk's supporters ticipation of the U.S. CIA. war in Laos to an unprecedent-
from the government, the army The Paris daily, "Combat," ed degree," and warned Pre-
and the Sangkum party. wrote: "There is no doubt that mier Souvanna Phouma that he
Sihanouk will be tried for the White House was informed --,must bear full responsibility
high treason if he tries to re- in advance of the Cambodian personally for the dangerous sit-
turn to Cambodia, the new re- coup and approved it." uation in the country.
gime has indicated. Lon Nol's In interview printed yesterday The only basis for peace, the
government has tried to remove by the Times of London, the LPF said, is the five-point LPF
every possible trace of Sihanouk,' new Cambodian ruler, Gen. Lon /peace plan calling for a cease-
but U.S. reporters found that the Nol, denied working with theJ fire, an end to U.S. involvement,
prince is still popular with ordi- CIA, and a provisional coalition gov-
nary Cambodlan people. "Wo, as tho government of sal- ornmont prior to national plea-
The Hanoi newspaper, "Nhan?'vation," he said, "had to re- tions, as foreseen by the 1982
Dan, organ of the Vietnamese ;quest full powers in order to Geneval Agreements on Laos.
Workers' Party, said on Tues- protect all those demonstrators."
day: "U.S. intrigues in Cambo-
dia show the extremely reaction-
to unite in the struggle against
American aggressors."
ary nature of the Nixon admini-
stration, which despite heavy de-
feats, is still looking for ways
of expanding and protracting the
war in Indochina." The news-
paper called the Cambodian peo-
ple "our comrades-in-arms in
the struggle against our common
enemy-American imperialism."
Giai Phong ("Liberation")
News Agency, the official press
service of the Provisional Revo-
lutionary Government of South
Vietnam,. said yesterdays "The
danger of aggression against
Cambodia, and against Vietnam
and Laos as well, comes from
the U.S. and its puppets. The
way to eradicate this danger is
tic was referring to the thou-
sands of people who sacked the
DRV and PRG embassies in
Phnom Phnh two weeks ago
New York Times reporter
Henry Kamm wrote on March V
14 that the mobs "were believ-
ed to have been instigated by
the military."
The Lao Patriotic Front radio
late Monday broadcast the peace
proposals sent by LPF leader
Prince Souphanouvong to "Royal
Lao" Premier Souvanna Phouma.
The broadcast said the LPF
asked Souvanna to call an "im-
mediate, complete and uncondi-
tional halt" to U.S. bombings in
Laos, in prder to demonstrate
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Iousted Cambodia's 'Premier' Norodom Si-
hanouk.was" entirely 'the ?result of a right.".,;'
in cantrolof Cambaclia or
referred to Hanoi and tI1e ot Cong as "our enjoying the advantage of official co-opera
Vietnamese enemies,' 'and he has ", since' tion, its'',power ' to `.attack ' South,;Vietnani? ,
hinted;- that , he :would . not ,' object either to would,. bb enormously stren
closer ties with Saigon gr more U.S pressure actual area' of hostities wouldebeagreatly'j
against enemy;:,troops ,in Cambodia ..',Thlj (.enlarged, .the temptation- ve
if not the?miiitary;f
stanceinvites a tougher ;line by,,3Ianoi,and -,; necosaity...-toexpand the war would be
it has' several: cards it can; play One ?of these, .,,great,; at, the4 fiery time when ,,wq .are,t n ti~
Is an expansion, of thg fighting in I' s which, ~ ~ yin to seal
g,~
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Neutrality Through Troop ema
Other Leaders present
Dispatch of The Times, London The general was flanked by
PNOMPENH, Cambodia,; Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak,
4arch 23-Lieut. Gen. Lon Premier and
the First Deputy
Nol, the Cambodian Premier, Interior Minister, and by pee
said today that his Govern- Sambour, Second Deputy
ment was determined to recov- mier
Gen. Lon Nol and Foreign Mdistwe did
er the nation's "active neutral-' not force the hand" of Parlia-
ity" through the removal of men, adding later: "Remember,
North Vietnamese and Vitt-' we have been surprised our-
cong troops. selves by these events."
Speaking in an interview, he Asked about charges that
disclosed that the delegation of the Central Intelligence Agency
the Vietcong's provisional rev- 'had been behind Prince Si-
olutionary government of South; hanouk's ouster, the Premier
Vietnam admitted in talks with! shrugged and said:
t last week that "Our position is the Geneva
his Governmen
Vietcong troops were in Cam- agreement, and It specifies thatl
bodia, which has been used as we are simply neutral. At thisa haven in the Vietnam war. crucial moment for our coun-1
The talks with the Vietnam- try we are again asking for the
ese 'Communists will be con Geneva agreement. But if you
tinued, he said, with the aiml want to be precise, I tell you
of settling the dispute peace we have never had any contacts
ably. Since the overthrow .of; with any foreigners, not only
Prince Norodom Sihanouk as' with the C.I.A. but with no
Chief of State last Wednesday, other foreigners either."
there have been scattered re-
torts of clashes between the, Appeal to Two Countries
and by soldiers, the house nas;settle the issue or Vietnamese
been the Government's com-.forces through negotiations.
mand post since the ouster.
General Lon Nol chatted jo-
vially in somewhat slangy,
French for almost an hour and
a half, continually . smoking
English cigarettes. -A tall gray-
ing man, the 57-year-old gen.
oral appeared relaxed and in-
tensely confident Of popular
approval for the actions against
Prince Sihanouk. These had
been taken, the he two insisted
housseaof
Parliam bent in accordance with
the Constitution. arld the ,laws.
lowed to recover the vessel, drawal talks and to see that
the Columbia Eagle. "But there the withdrawal was verified
is a risk of misunderstanding,"1 and controlled. Prince Sihanouk
General Non Nol said and hej suspended the commission-
had decided not to permit theI Canada, Poland and India-last'
fall on the ground that Cam
recovery. 'We are just going bodia, could. no longer afford
to leave ' it there," , he said, the cost.
chuckling loudly. General Lon Nol added that
The general was interviewed his Government had decided to
at his spacious but modestly! inform United Nations members
Ifurnished suburban villa-:about the situation here and
Guarded by two armored cars about Cambodia's desire' to
Vietcong and Cambodian forces. He. said he appealed yester-
General Lon Nol asserted that' day to Britain and the Soviet
that' his Government had de-, Union, the co-chairmen of the
cided not to return the Amer-'1954 Geneva Conference on
lean munitions ship diverted to. Indochina, because the new
Cambodian waters by two Government wanted the Inter-
crewmen on March 15. national Control Commission
The ijnited States, he said, back in Cambodia as soon as
had asked that its ships be al- possible to help with the with-
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Ton"t Free
U.S. Ship
LONDON, March 24 (UPI)-
Cambodian Premier Lon Nol
said today he would not return
the U.S. munitions ship that
mutineers hijacked to Cambo-
dia on March 14.
Fred Emery, The Times of
L o n do n correspondent in
Phnom Penh, quoted Lon Nol
as saying that although the'
Americans had asked to be al
lowed to recover the ship, the
Columbia Eagle, there was "a
risk of misunderstanding."
"We are just going to leave
it there," he said, chuckling.
It was the first interview
with the general since Prince
Norodom' Sihanouk was de-
posed as head of state last
!-'week.
Lon Nol said the new regime
had "lost sight" of the captain
and American crew of the ves-
sel, but added that "it seems
t h e y are somewhere here-
abouts. We have been more;
concerned with other events."
He denied that the ouster of
Sihanouk had been helped by
the CIA.
"We have not had any con-
tacts with the CIA or with any
other foreigners. We are sirh
ply neutral under the Geneva
agreement," he .said.
As for the presence of Viet-
;: tong and North Vietnamese
troops in Cambodia, Lon No1
said that direct talks and ap-
.peals to international organ-
izations would be made before
,,any thoughts of settling. mat-
;'ters by militafy! means.
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It added that "the over-
?? throw of the reactionary
right-wIng
tt~+ U.S. imperialists".. would be
Peking
achieved in the very near fu.
port of Sihanouk was issued In
a Vietnamese-language com-
mentary on the lengthy decla-
ration put but in Peking this
past weekend by the Prince.
Among other points, Sihan-
O ture. ouk had asserted that his
-Jr 0
The fact that Sihanouk's ouster by the Cambodian par-
statement was issued from Pe- ]lament on March 18 was "ab-
JJh11//J h king indicated lie was acting solutely Illegal,"
.-,,ii, rhinrsn rnenurnecmcnl. Ito railed for a referendum
cstablishmcn o
.,,...,t ne Nntlnnat Union" in)- but pledged that he would]
fo Wa ~ bohtn's . "legal chief state;' tripartite International
composed
`Sihanouk Sihanouk. also announce d the trot ol Co Commission - composed
t f 't "Govern. of India Canada and Poland
By Stanley Karnow exile. J, J,IlL 1ILua? Y,,.....
Washington Post Foreign Service In his capacity as chief of into' office.
HONG KONG, March 23-Prince Norodom Sihanouk, state, Sihanouk said, the "dig- - Linking the Cambodian situ-
solves for the crime of high ation to events elsewhere- in
evidently. supported by North Vietnam and Communist treason" the new Cambodian the former French possession
China, has declared war on the conservative Cambodian government headed by Lt. of Indochina, tonight's Hanoi
.military and.civilian leaders who ousted him last week. Gen. Lon Nol as well as the broadcast said that "though the
'.parliament. U.S. imperialists are very cun-
In a .five-point statement issued today in Peking, The Prince said a "Consults. ning and cruel, they will be de-
~'Sihanouk ;announced the formation of a "National Lib- tive Assembly" composed of feated in Cambodia as they
.. .,.*h~ have been defeated in Viet-
aos
.
authority in Cambodia. Jsoldiers and other ?'anti.Impe? ?a.,. u.... L
The struggle "for the libera- rialist" elements loyal to him The broadcast repeated l
tion of the homeland," he would be established "pending' Hanoi's charges that the coups
k was
h
w
'
.
anou
Si
s return to a normal., that overthre
said, would be waged with Cambodia
tthe assistance of the "anti-tm- situation." "perpetrated by the U.S. impe-
perialist forces of the brother The assembly, the liberation rialists" as part of their "plan
,coyntries." army and his government 'in 1of aggression" against Vietnam,
Sihanouk's declaration coin- exile, Sihanouk said, would Laos and Cambodia, the three
aided with a ' statement from join with the "masses of the states that made up Indochina.
Hanoi that the Vietnamese people" to form "National Entitled "Horrible Faces of
Communists will back him in United Front" for Cambodia. ' the U.S. Imperialists and the
his effort to regain power. The dual objective of the Group that organized the
An estimated 60,000 North "united front," he went on, is Coup D'etat in Cambodia," the ]
(Vietnamese and Vietcong the "liberation of the country broadcast alleged that Sihan-hv/
troops are deployed in areas and Its reconstruction after ouk's ouster was staged by-the
of eastern Cambodia adjacent victory over the, imperialists American Central Intelligence
to South Vietnam. The Cambo- and our ? enemies and their Agency.
dian army comprises about (lackeys" While quoting lavishly from.
35,000 men, most of them Ill. Referring to the new re-' the Prince's weekend declara-I
equipped and poorly trained. 'Igime, Sihanouk singled out tion, the Hanoi hroadcast con-1
The timing of Sihanouk's Premier Lon Nol, Deputy Pre- spicuously omitted a passage!
declaration and the Hanoi I mier Sirik Matak and the re- I in which Sihanouk referred to
statement appeared to indi- Icently appointed chief of North Vietnamese and Viet-
cate that the Prince has been state, Cheng Heng, calling cong infiltration into Cam
assured by North Vietnam them "masters" of a "clique of bodia.
that its armed force would traitorous and pro-imperialist The broadcast also failed to
move in his behalf against his reactionaries." mention Sihanouk's proposal
successors. In their first direct acknowl
Such a move, observers here for a refer~?ndum under the
submit, would ignite a war in edgement of the change of control commission's supervi-
Cambodid, perhaps prompting government in Phnom Penh, sign.
its new leaders to appeal to the Chinese today published a The commission, created by
the United States for help. colored account of events sur- the 1954 Geneva conference!
Other observers believe, rounding Sihanouk s ouster. that ended the Indochina war,
however, that Sihanouk may An official New China News was invited to leave Cambodia
have taken his extreme step in Agency dispatch, mainly sum- by Sihanouk last fall.
order to gain leverage for a ming up Western press re- The new regime in Phnom.
political settlement of his dis- ports, said that U.S. warships Penh yesterday asked the com.
pute with those who deposed were patrolling near Cambo- mission, whose theoretical
him. than waters and that Sen. Wil- f netion has been toreport vi-
The North Vietnamese state- Liam Fulbright (D-Ark.) hinted lations of the peace in the
ment, broadcast by Radio that the CIA "might be states of Indochina, to return.
Hanoi and monitored here to- volved " ' to Cambodia. -
night, said that "we are deter- The dispatch exuded a eau- The Radio Hanoi commen-'
mined to support the just tious tone, however, stating tary on Cambodia tonight was
struggle that the chief of state that "people are watching the matched by another official
Prince Norodom Sihanouk and - I manta and ? changes of vi tnamese statement
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Asks Aid'
of People
Prem Werid?Heretd Press ServlCaI. In a speech reported b,t radio
Prince Norodom Sihanouk, de- Phom Penh, Gen. Not demand
(.posed Cambodian chief of state, ed that other nations observe
,called for a "sacred struggle" international law. This was an
ksunday to topple the regime that obvious reference to the Viet'
)replaced him but said he has no Cong and N o r t h Vietnamese
~i mention of attempting to regain forces who use Cambodian bor-
power- himself. der provinces as sanctuaries for
His statement in Peking was the war in Vietnam.
b_ roadcast by Communist China's - Two Fired
'fficial news agency, NCNA, and In saying that Cambodia would
rr ionitored in Tokyo. Sihanouk safeguard its Independence, how-
i as been in Peking since 1 as t' ever, Gen. No] also appeared to
;Thursday, the day after the be talking to Sihanouk, the Assn-
Cambodian legislature voted to ciated Press said. For at an-
' oust him and turned over gov- other point he warned the ousted
elrning power to an army gen- chief of state not to interfere
eral, Lon Not, who had served as with the new "salvation govern-
Sihanouk's premier. + ment."
"My duty is to participate in "Any act or plot of the prince
the sacred struggle our people detrimental to Cambodia will be
will wage inside and outside they condemned as treason," he de-
country to obliterate this coup clared.
d'etat and restore legality and "Meanwhile, Gen. Nol fired two' democracy," he said . In the pro-Sihanouk members of the
statement. Cabinet. At the same time, 'Nol
Sihanouk, saying the United promised to maintain Cambo-1
States supported the move to dia's neutralist policies.
oust him, said he "would forthally ;';About 225 American tourists,
'resign from his position but not Including playwright A r t h u r
'while the current regime holds Miller, have. been caught in
1. jpower In Cambodia. Cambodia by the. political crisis
Take Office , and` are trying to get to Thai-ti
~.i In an earlier statement, Sih-' land,'tl;S. newspaper publisher
enouk charged that the U.S. 1' Mart1fl Wolman said Saturday
Central Iuelligence Agency` Bangkok. . __+: t a
behind the trau'fSiMM Cambodia
that led to his ouster. He said
the sacking of the North Viet=
" namese and Viet Cong embas-,
?sies March 11 had been organ-
ited by his opponents out of per-
sonal ambition and to meet the
needs of the CIA.
Cambodia's new. leaders for-
mally took o f f i c e Saturday,
warning Sihanouk to keep hands off the nation and pledging to],
use all means in backing up de-
inands for withdrawal Of North
Vietnamese and ? V i e t C a n g
ttooDS from. Cambodianq sof.
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AFTER several years of wait.,
ing in the shadows, Ameri-.
ca's Central Intelligence Agency,
may be fully operational again.
Iris % tick's incredible coup in Cam-
bo tia. whir h will have such far-reaching con-
scgtwnces through the entire Asian theatre,
had the stamp of the C.I.A. at its most pro,.
(,)f course. there will he no olrr- ~ rem
tE.ti /Ict.til on the C.I.A. rule, but it I J
tsouli he n:live in toda s world to
s..ur.re that Prince Norodom Siha?}
nruk'a overthrow wns just a luck)'
8461'Int for tlle' U.111100 31410S. U, L` U L".
Camiiodian rebels aho opposed the
Prince - an accusation that was
widely trumpeted about South-East
' A.ia. wtrere the C.I.A. is credited
with having spies in every town and
in c%ety Government.
robably does.
It
p
White the super-spy agency has
made _roiccquc mistakes over the
pa,,t lit wars, it hac also scored
J some brilliant successes and, under
the enthusiastic support of Presi-
dent Nixon. C.I.A. director Rich-
ard Helm and his world-wide net-
work of spies arc doubtless more
powerful than ever.
Charges that they had meddled
for too much in Asian polilir~s
eau=ed the C.I.A. well 10 lie low
for some time, hul it was obvious
even to a reporter on a brief visit
to South-East Asia this month that
the C.I.A. was "gung-ho" again.
Transport and ,assenIer
V pl.mes or Air America inc.,
/
1- h t. run a7 ? C.I.A. sub.
sidi?ry. are to be seen in Thai-
land. tans and South Victnam,
and it i< common knowledge that
titc%e aircraft are used to mope
arentn and weapons cot aawst
pr+'jscta
From PETER
MICHELMORE
in New York
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The' Big Lie In' Asia . p
Sen. Fulbright, in his usual broad- States has continually acted. to In-
nded approach to such questions, timidate and violate (Cambodia's) .
said right away that he was willing sovereignty and its territory in the
to assume "on general principles" - hope of sapping its independence and
that the American C.I.A. a hand neutrality."
in the Cambodian developments. The truth is that the Viet Cong and
Others in the American peace bloc, North Vietnam have literally occupied
made it sound as if, because an anti- portions of Cambodia for, years, using
Communist government seems to the areas as ' sanctuaries for their
have taken over, the cause of peace aggression in South Vietnam-this is
has suffered a setback, for which the very issue Cambodians rioted
U. S. militants are to blame (or at about last week, sacking the North
least will applaud). Vietnamese and V. C. embassies and
eventually bringing about the ouster
Similarly, in Laos, -they view.with of Sihanouk.
alarm the U. S. involvement there and
try to make it seem that we have "The United States is thus aiming
launched an aggressive campaign to . to make Cambodia into a second Laos
control the country-while they or South Vietnam. It is perfectly
rarely acknowledge the long-standing, clear that the Nixon administration,
presence of thousands of North Viet.' in order to save the defeat in Viet-
namese soldiers in Laos in violation nam, Is not only escalating in Laos,
of the Geneva accords, and never but is seeking moreover to expand
point out that our involvement in the war, to the entire Indochinese
Laos is, directly in response to re- peninsula, thus gravely threatening
quests by the legitimate 'Laotian peace in all Southeast Asia."
government, which is fighting for its Get that. The U. S. is escalating
life. the war in Laos. The fighting there_
We are most reluctant to.tag critics is the result the whole. world knows
of U. S. policy as un-Americat--but this, and it is inconceivable that mem-
some go beyond the bounds of honest bers of the United States Senate don't
criticism. It is impossible to conclude know it-of North Vietnamese armed.4
anything but that their activities are Invasion
sio of LLaos aos,, which is the legitimate'
anti-U. S. national interest, and to government resisting.
assume that since. they know better, How can you talk, much leas nego-
tngir U. S. Involve a the ment facts underles tiate with people who brazenly, with+
ing volve and d activities out batting an eyelash, turn the truth
in Southeast inutheast Asia is deliberate. around 180 degrees and swear by it? 1.
Moreover, they accuse the U. S. of The bitterest pill of all;is that some
refusing to negotiate seriously. at influential people in our oy~m country,
Paris, when the truth is , . well, wittingly or unwittingly, encourage
1listen to this from this week's session Ahem by.. leading people to believ
of the peace talks. The North Viet, that their bare-faced lies about th
tese delegate is speaking: .. United States of 4nerica's' alleg
"Eos :a., long: time . aga. the United " impe$alism". are rue
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Paris, March 19-Viet Cong,
.negotiators charged today that
the United States had engi-
neered the coup d'etat that oust-
ed Prince Norodom Sihanouk as ti
.,Cambodia's chief of state. 13
Ly Van Sau, the Viet Cong's i.
official spokesman, said that the.,
United States intended to sabo-;i
tage Cambodia's "independence;f ,
j Mr. Sau, answering news- .,
nam's negotiator, charged dur- ?(
Nguyen Minh Vy, North Viet--'4
bib, had rejected the Communist
charges, of. American 1. ny+olve,
American officials . said that'i
Cambodia into a second Laos or;;
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It's quite difficult for the average
American citizen to evaluate th? rela.
tive merits and demerits of Cambodian
politicians on the far side of the world.
But it ought not to be difficult to
understand that deposed Prince Noro-
dom Sihanouk of Cambodia, who has
been replaced by a regime now recog-
nized by the United States, was cer-
tainly no friend of America or free-
dom.
If anyone needed a gauge of Siha-
nouk's friendship to us, an unfortu-
nately negative one was available in the
support and sympathy heaped on him
by some leading American political
figures. If they like him, '.it's a good
sign he's bad for America. And this
should prompt recognition that they
are bad for American Interests, too.
The removal of M o s c o w- visiting
Sihanouk had just been announced
when Democratic Senate Majority
Leader Mike Mansfield rose up to
praise Sihanouk as "the one man in
was harboring 40,000 to 60,000 North It will take time to tell' more about
Vietnamese Communist troops that some of the new names in governmen..
used Cambodia as a privileged sanctu- tal positions in Cambodia. But Siha-
ary from which to attack the southern nouk already has exposed himself;
portion of South Vietnam and k i 11 And the concern of the likes of Mans-
Americans. This favor to the Reds has field, McGovern and Fulbright should'
been absolutely necessary to the I r give- perspective, tog, for- they long'
'presence in the south, aid to the enemy ago have exposed -their dangerous
without which the South Vietnamese brand of surrender philosophy. -? .
.1
"keeping together." It was a land that
all of his kingdom who can keep it to-
gether."
But even If Sen. Mansfield-were
right, and there is no assurance he Is,
take a look at what Sihanouk had been
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and American troops could clear the
Communist menace from the southern
portion of South Vietnam with rela-
tive ease and speed.
Sen. George S. McGovern, the Demo-
cratic "dove" from South Dakota, was
also heard from, fearing that the CIry
or some other U.S. agency had been
involved against Sihanouk.
And then, if these indications were
not enough, up popped that old reliable
surrender-prone opponent of s o if n d ;
foreign policy, Sen. J. William F'ul-
bright, D-Ark., to declare his concern =-
about possible CIA involvement "on
general principles."
While these men and others similar
to them were apparently upset over'
the upset that Sihanouk had experi-
enced, other Americans with clearer
eyes, keener ears and better judgment
could still hear ringing in the air the
statement of Sihanouk from Moscow,
calling Americans aggressive''imperial.
ists and criticizing our defense of free-'
dom in his apparent. effort to?ingrati-l
ate himself with, the 'Russians, who'
furnish 80 per cent,.of'.'the Red arms'
and supplies that have 'made and con.
tinue to make the Vietnam aggression-
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REDS ACCUSE
fTd S9 OF TRYING.
TO/EH!AR
~I. BY RD\VARD R011RBACHM
[Chief of Paris Bureau] volvement in Cambodia has
[Chiuse Tribune Press service] been one of "intimidation,
PARIS, March 19-The Com- threats, and sabotage."
munists at the Viet Nam peace Vy claimed the "consistent
talks char
d
d
ge
to
ay that "
ma-
'nauvers and deeds" of the
United States pulled off the
:coup in Cambodia that ousted
Prince Sihanouk as head of
state.
The North Vietnamese and
the communist provisional rev-
olutionary "government" of
South Viet Nam. linked the "se.
rious situation" In Cambodia
with the accusation that the
United States is generally in-
tensifying the war In South Viet
,.Nam, and Laos.
Blanes C. I. A.
Reporters
Reporters askec 'wha was re.
for the expulsion of
the neutralist Sihanouk. The
dog overnmentdelegation's
spokesman, Ly Van Sau, re-
plied:
neutral countries from their le--
gitimate course."
Nguyen Minh Vy, North Viet'
Nam's negotiator at today's.
deadlocked session, charged
that American policy In south-
east Asia is aimed at turning
Cambodia "into a .second Viet
Nam or a second Laos." He
said the history of American in.
policy" of the North Viet Nam
government is "to respect the
independence, neutrality, and
territorial integrity of the king
dom
f Cambodia _ ... . .
o
present boundaries."
U. S. Ignores Issue
The United States did noti
bring up the Cambodian events ,
in its statements. The South/
Viet Nam delegate made only a
passing reference to it, notingl
that it was "an Internal Cam-'
bodian affair.':.
American Ambassador Philip
C..Habib coptinued to, press the
Communists on the war pris.
oner issue but said after-,the
conference. that;, he, ;bad,;: re-
ceived no response
.
"You're not unaware of the
classic maneuvers of the.
C. I. A. [Central Intelligence-
jagencyl for sidetracking the
eern[aenta~ w ,pendent'
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Cambodian. troops were reported yesterday to be pulling out of positions along
the country's western frontier with Thailand and to be moving to the northeast
part of the country where Laos, South Vietnam and Cambodia come together.
The Cambodian National As-
sembly yesterday voted what it
called "full power"-which may
mean dictatorial power-to arm-
ed forces commander General
i Lon Nol, and suspended the
civil rights guarantees' In the
(D-Ark), chairman of the Sen-
ate Foreign Relations Commit-
tee, said yesterday he believed
the U.S. Central Intelligence'
'Agency was involved in the
events in Cambodia, although he
added he had no definite infor-
Cambodian constitution. oration.
The Asset ably, under rightist Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont),
strong-man Lon Nol's direction, Senate majority leader called
had earlier voted to oust Prince,,, 'the change of power in Cambo-
Norodom Sihanouk as chief of dia a "disaster" and said that
state and to replace him with Sihanouk was the only man who
'pro-U.S. millionaire Cheng Heng, could hold the country together.'
the Assembly president. Saigon President Nguyen Van
An official dispatch from the Thlou said ho hoped his regime
Cambodian news agency, Agence could re-establish diplomatic tied
Khmer Presse, outlined the , with Cambodia now.
charges made against Sihanouk ` - The U.S. yesterday recognized
by those now in power in the the new government of Gen.
Cambodian capital of Phnom Lon Nol and President Cheng
Penh. Sihanouk was charged Heng in Cambodia and said it
with "helping the Vietcong" by had received a Cambodian note
providing them with weapons pledging "strict neutrality." The
and refuges along the border ? U.S. move became known in a
with South Vietnam. He was ac- State Department news confer-
cused of corruption, demagoguery :,. ence in Washington in which
nepotism, and "ruining the peo- press officer Carl Bartch said
ple." The charges were similar that "the question of 'recogni-
to those made against Ghana's tion' does not arise" for the now
President Kwamc Nkrumah and ? regime. This means that the
Indonesia's leader Sukarno after U.S. considers the Lon 'Nol gov-
thev were ousted by Dro-imps- ernritent the legitimate succes-
rialist military leaders. sor to aitnanoutt..
I Senator J. William P'ulbright _ Sihanouk himself arilved yes.
erday in Peking from Moscow
and was met by Chinese Premier
Chou ? En-lat. Reports from both
Moscow and Peking continued
to. refer to Sihanouk as "chief of
state" of Cambodia. A dispatch
from Peking by Tanjug, the Yu-
goslav news agency, said Siha-
nouk appeared "deeply anxious"
and was moved to tears in a
visit to the Cambodian Embassy.
At the Paris peace talks yes-
terday, the Vietnamese side ac-
cused the-U.S. of being behind
the events in Cambodia.
The charges were made by
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
representative, Nguyen Ming Vy.
He said: "We are going to show.
today that ,the U.S. not only con-
tinues its war of aggression in
Vietnam and extend the war to
Laos, but that it also creates
tension in Cambodia, thus rais-
Ing a.jgrave threat to peace in
the whole of Southeast Asia.
"The U.S. must assume full
responsibility for the consequ-
ence," he said.
U.S.. representative Philip Ha-
,bib had "nothing to say" about
Cambodia. but in the session it-
self he charged that the DRV
had brought about the whole
situation by its. "Invasion:
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IT WOULD BE encouraging, but ger $en Cems to be in the
much too optimistic, to believe that clear on this one - although that's
the men in Cambodia who have oust- just the first assessment of the situa-
ed Prince Norodom Sihanouk from tion. The Cambodian army, accord-
artial
is
es
p
,
,.power = presumably because he was ing to these same sourc
n ...6 l...hn nnrn controlled
to the
id
f
r
6VVe nly
and permitted the North Vietnamese .' all of French Indo-China) and ac-
and the Viet Cong to make a doormat, cepts advice from a rather large
of Cambodia - would now forcibly contingent of French officers and
expel all Viet Cong and North Viet- : military specialists.
namese forces from Cambodian,soil. The Cambodian army has been
r They probably will not do so- for resentful of the. North Vietnamese
`several reasons. One .ls that they presence principally because it de-
don't have the military might to ac- eluted the. army's control over some !
complish such an aim. parts of the country and led to clash
The Cambodian army, is estimat- es with the Communists. Still, Sihan
ed at between 30,000 and 33,000 men ouk's constant boast was that he kept.
and U.S.. correspondents in the area his country neutral.
say it would be no match for the One theory therefore is that Si-' elements of the North Vietnamese' hanouk himself engineered the coup
army and the Viet Cong irregulars and will return to the frenzied cheers -4
already in Cambodia: of the Cambodian people when they
be chaos which
d to
.
. ;, , demand an en
itself is the new governors of the country are
S THE cou
A
p.
S FAR A
concerne'. the t?-S- Q= al Tnt~Lt likely to generate.
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ligence Agency, which has plenty of
men in the f ieold, did OEtE PRODUCE
might happen the happenings?
Quite likely, it did the latter, hop-
ing to give Mr. Nixon a hand in the
struggle in Vietnam for which he
promised a solution while campaign-
ing witnom
is e. The idea may have been - on the
part of the CIA - to get another na-
tion involved in the battle against
the Vietcong. The only trouble is that
the scheme. is more apt to misfire.
In the manner in which the CIA-
sponsored "invasion" of _ Cuba mis-,
fired. And so we will be fighting in
Cambodia too.
What a catastrophe!
The developments in Cambodia
must, by necessity, raise that ques-
_ --I T..+ L
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A Deserved But Untimely Coup
'r, CAMBODIA, Laos, Thalland and In the Past, Sihanouk hop-scotched
;Vietnam are largely unnatural countries between the communist and non-com-
thrust on the world in the last two munist camps. As an unequalled egotist, '
decades. They have been pushed far he would stoop to anything to regainl
beyond their rightful positions of im- power, including enlisting the aid of
portance. Hanoi. His challengers preside over an
Vietnam has been a major headliner ill-trained and poorly equipped army of
c for almost 10 years. A scattering of news 35,000. Hanoi has at least 40,000 troops on
about Thailand reaches front. pages only Cambodian soil. It would be no contest If
because of the strategic role it plays as a the communist guns were aimed at j
I major U.S. base in the Vietnam war. Cambodia rather than Vietnam.
Normally, it would be heard from only in The coup could provoke new en-,
travel articles about its unique hedges croachments in Cambodia by Hanoi. The
rand royal aviaries. Laos is like a pot of danger is that the Vietnam wai.could be?
gumbo, heated and cooled periodically to extended into Cambodia. It is already I
suit' appetites. threatening In Laos.
Now it's Cambodia again. Cambodia There is the possibility of help from the
used to make the news because Its ruling new Cambodian leaders. They could exert
prince for 29 years possessed an advanc- pressure on North Vietnamese troops }
ed talent for pomposity, Incongruity and camped on their land, which Sihanouk
plain lying, which he faithfully exposed to,' poralstently refused to do, But there is'
the world with a perverse e e n a e of danger there, too. If the Cambodians
timing. wanted to peck at the North Vietnamese, ,
Since Prince Sihanouk has apparently '' they would need additional ; equipment,)
lost his job, it would be comtortmg tie' ana assistance.
write him off, in much the same way that ' The Central In+ppi p A y and 1 'V
although doubtful, would have eased the Capriciousness were teavestim of leader.
Pressures In Vietnam. That's supposedly ' ship, is h o 1 d bear such, tarebodiags
shot norm
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was dispatched. But it Isn't so easy. ' delighted to get into the act in Cambodia,
From a rice paddy foundation, as they are in Laos.- A North .Vietnamese
Sihanouk somehow managed to insinuate reaction would' spread the war aver
himself and Cambodia-into larger affairs almost the entire Southeast Asia penin-
} during the last decade. It is a sad corn- sula, sucking the U.S. deeper into The t mentary that. this ?I n d o -Chines e mire. Actually, the CIA could already "u-1
i princeling, otherwise a laughable buffoon, 'active in Cambodia. It could be the forcehas an effect on the East-West balance of behind the Sihanouk coup.
power and world peace. If it were not for the dangers implicit Here are some of the possibilities of In the Sihanouk toppling, it would be pure,
the Cambodian coup: pleasure to see the clown prince get hiss
Sihanouk was on a trip to Moscow and due. But there is no comfort In a situa-
Peking when he was deposed. It was Lion that could bring new conflict and,
thought in Washington be was using the ' disorder at a time when this cation is at-;
threat of a right-wing challenge to his. tempting to reduce Its involvement ins
rule to reinforce demands that Hanoi be , the region. persuaded to withdraw its troops from It is a part. of the enigma of the. areal
Cambodia, a sanctuary from American and its inflated importance that the fall'
firepower In Vietnam. Such a removal, ..of Sihanouk," whose- Corruption and,
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[Washington Bureau o/ The Sun]
they professed ignorance about
what was happening in Phnom
Penh.
Talking with newsmen about
the Phnom Penh proclamation,
Senator Mansfield said:
"I am concerned and dis-;
turbed, but I don't think we
ought to swallow the story
whole.
'Prince Sihanouk is one man
in all of Asia I wouldn't sell'
short," the senator continued 1
adding, "Sihanouk and Cambod-!.
are synonymous.' '
Referring to recent broadcasts!
from Moscow, Hanoi and Peking'
alleging that the U.S, has been,
promoting opposition withinI
Cambodia to Prince Sihanouk's'
"neutralist" regime, newsmen
asked about possible United
States involvement in the
Prince's ouster.
"I give you my word that we
are not involved in Cambodia in
any way, shape-or form,",he
said.
Washington, March 18-Sena-
tor Mike Mansfield (D.; Mont.),
who for more than seven years
had championed Prince Noro-
dom Sihanouk's brand of South-
east Asian "neutrality," voiced
doubts today that the Cambodi-
an's ouster would prove, perma
nent.
Nixon administration officials,
on the other hand, would not
venture any judgments. about
the future course of events in
Am is. Besides, confessing
that,\they had been surprised by
the;,, nouace n~',o the.conp-.
Coup Laid To CIA
By THOMAS T. FENTON
[Parts Bureau of The Sun]
Paris, March 18-North Viet'
namese sources in Paris charged
tonight that the Cambodian
government's ouster of Prince,
Norodom- Sihanouk as~'dhlef a
state, had been' engineered by
The sources, who said that,
they were speaking unofficially,,
described the coup d'etat asj
"the work of the CIA." I
They pointed to press reports!
of 'recent joint actions by the;
Cambodian Army and the South:
Vietnamese Army along the,
Cambodian - South Vietnamese
border as evidence of collusion
between the United 'States and,
'
the Cambodian generals who
have apparently seized power. I
The sources, who had no direct,'
reports on the coup d'etat other
than press accounts reaching,
here, said that they would not
yet rule out the' possibility that
Prince Sihanouk, . might .still . re-
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Si , hanouk,
C Not-
IA
French'..
Prince Norodom Sihanouk was lysts, who are always quick Jo
4
arranged by the American see a CIA rote whether it exists
,
Central 'Intelligence Agency or not, other American motives
y t CI A ). according to some in Cambodia include:
reach military officials.
They see it as a mode to -Hoping for permission to
strengthen the position of Thai- bomb the Ho Chi Minh trail in
land in case Laos falls to Cambodia for Viet Cong and
Communist North Vietnamese Laos in order to cut North
and Pathet Lao forces: Vietnamese supply lines to their
The takeover by Cambodian forces in South Vietnam.
Premier Gen. Lon Not and -Denial of sanctuary In,
!Sihanouk's rightist relative, Cambodia for Viet Cong and
Prince Sisowath Sidik Matak, is North Vietnamese forces raid-
compared here with the 1965 ing across the border into
ouster from power of Indone- South Vietnam.
sian president Sukarno; which -Removal of an erratic and
the French also credit to the frequently pro-Peking neutralist
CIA. leader, Sihanouki.` blamed by
However Sihanouk's long and the Pentbgon-for prolonging the'
,,spectacular history of resigning, Vietnam war by', tolerating'.
and threatening to resign pro-. Hanoi penetration of. Cambodia:
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By James McCartney
,Chicago Daily News Service'
The right-wing military coup
In Cambodia-if it is success-
ful-has the potential of chang- "It they did that and hol-
ing the ground rules of the lered for help, we might have
tVietnam War. - a dilemma on our hands," said
It could be the biggest break one U.S. official.
sident Nixon has got-
P
h
re
at
t
ten In trying to end the war. SIHANOUK has permitted
Or it could lead to a North the North Vietnamese to use
'Vietnamese attempt to ' take his country as a sanctuary in
over Cambodia by force, and mounting attacks on southern
thus cause a new and different South Vietnam. If that ground
kind of crisis in Vietnam. rule were to be removed, the
Communists would be severely
U.S. officials do not pretend crippled.
to know what precisely is hap That would aid President
pening in Cambodia - or who i Nioxn in de-escalating the war.'
r may wind up in charge. It's too Approximtely 40,000 main-
early for that. , force North Vietnamese troops
But they are certain that the,, are believed to be based in
troops might try to do the job, The take-over in Cambodia
No less an official than De-
tense-See. Melvin R. Laird has
openly discussed this possi-I Sisowath Sirik Matak, is com-
bility. pared In Paris with the ouster
That's where the importance
of a successful right-wing coup
comes into the picture.
If right-wing generals were
to gain control in Cambodia
f and invite the United States to
clean out North Vietnamese
forces, the temptation to take
ouk's righthist relative, Prince
of Indonesian President Su-
karno, which the French also
credit to the-C,
The Communists have the
military power to respond.
They are already in 'a strong I
position in Laos, north of Cain-1
bodia. They probably could,
them up on the offer would be! take over all of Cambodia if
great. I they wished in a counter at-';
This course of..-action, no' tack.
doubt, would cause a political
uproar in the United States. AT THE PARIS, Vietnam]
i'talks Thursday, Freudenheim
events of the last few days in I Cambodia, poised to threaten
Cambodia will affect all of, the capital city of Saigon and
Southeast Asia. And they are the rich Mekong Delta to the;
seeking to weigh alternatives. ! south.
Cambodia is important be- -!
it has sought, essential- DAILY NEWS correspondentl
ly, to remain neutral in strug- Milt Freudenheim reports that it possible to freeze supply I nation that Sihanouk has been - =
1,1. toi
u
gle for Southeast Asia. , Paris observers were q
routes to the Communist forces t r
Prince Norodom Sihanouk, stress the dangers of a shift to ~ ousted. .
in Cambodia and Sout. ,Viet.
h
h
"
}
e
t
at t
is perfectly clear i
It
the chief of state who has been the right in Cambodia. If the nom. d
er
ll
to
ti
i
f
no
on, r
stra
s
a
Nixon
;
Supplies for Communist ar- admin
ousted, has walked a narrow weak Cambodian army
path - often leaning one way, ;control the Communist Viet-,I mien in the Mekong Delta have. to save itself from defeat in
then the other. namese forces, United States Vietnam, not only is escalating
forces could be sucked in, as been permitted to flow., freely the war in Laos but also is try-
t
extend the war to the
DAILY ?NEWS Washington ----- e ,_ V etnam and through Cambodian ports.. i
o
ng
Bureau chief Peter Lisagor re- Laos, they warned. .
BUT LESS drastic possi-
bilities also are being dis-
cussed in official circles here.
For example, a right-wing re-
gime in Cambodia might.make
ports that suspicion that the Cambodia also has provided I,be Invited to bomb Communist placing a grave threat to peace
coup deposing him might be the supply route for Commu ; -.. in Southeast Asia," Hanoi deie-
another ruse faded quickly as i nist forces in southern South (sanctuaries in . Cambodia. I gate Nguyen Minh Vy - de?
. Southeast Asian experts stud- Vietnam. Bombing has not been per- Glared.
led the scant reports moni-, U.S. and South Vletnameses imitted in Cambodia. The United States must as.
tored on Phnom Penh. Radio. THE JUDGMENT in Wash- forces have not been able t Comer
high school student in Sal- was regarded as immoral. i ized
t h e a is
neutralized
that
a
gon and considered to be '' Moreover
as the United .
,
.
was fea
Southeast
Asia
weak and tractable. Under States increasingly concen-
French guidance, as he later '. ? trated its attention on the {r' Now, he affirmed, r. the reg- -
admitted, he was. encour- South Vietnamese govern- 'ions -security depended ? on; i
aged to be a playboy. ment under President Ngo rwhat hecalled "balance ate
i
nh Diem, Cambodia was
Soon afterward, however, D
he displayed his nationalistic' neglected. - ,141
.passion and diplomatic ' Sihanouk. began to sour:;
skills. He proclaimed Cam? an the United States in 1958; ::;
' bodia's independence under when . S a u t h Vdetnemeae=
annual film festivals.
At the core of Sihanouk's,
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;i. by his rising apprehensions
at the sight of an expanding :1
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awaited word today from the front the Soviet Lhtirin and Coin
Ltritcd States diplomatic mis- Imiinist China, to be Gen. Lon Nol, Prince, tries rpflected~+a,.3;,rcr+ir;; un
sion in Phnom Penh before Wew Other Americans Minister and chief of the coon, tern by Cambc&]::i 'ever V t
venlurin,g c:+nimeni on the over- in addition to the Ili Anieri- try's 49,000-man armed forces. Cong use' of Carrbrrtian tern-
throw of Prince Norodom Siha-cans at the U.S. embastiv, there lie is described as somewhat to, Cory.
nouk. Camhnclia's chief of stale. are only four or five other , the right in his politics. They said that Sihanouk nr
Authorities in 'lie Cambodian Americans living in the c?nnn-; Officials said that the military expressed disma"r last faii w .u.. I
capital city , cut off evtern:il try, aside from such temporary co-operation between Camho? he toured the ;roatier
communications this morning residents as the 15 members ? 1' dian and South Vietnamese and found that Commur.,r
when the Rnval Cambodian Ch a crew o f the Anierican forces this week In attacking forces had gained. a- forrliold
Coanicl and the National As- freighter-Columbia Ida g I c,' Viet Cong troops along the on Cambodian-soil.
d
t
government. Sihanouk was ill, which two hijackers urveyte
I Moscow Sihanoukville over the weekend.
1 There was no expectation here' The other permanent Ameri-
I flint the coup w(%. Irl re~n'? In o can residents of 'Cambodia are
definite shift of Cimhot u9n paid to he the wive 'of Cam-
policy, Radio Plinoin Penh was hodian citizens.
crnted as saving that the court- snn;p officials believed t h a t
policies cf indcpcr,;l nc,-, lien- proved speculation that he ha I
trality and territorial integrity been behind the recent demon- V
ai.d respect all international strations against the'ppresence
) Little Mention of CIA of North Vietnamese and Viet
Cong troops on Cambodian soil.
There ,war little or none of They noted, however that the
the usual spi:calation that the '
Centrallntelli,~cnce Agency was disturbances occurred just as
invilved in the coop. Since di- Sihanouk was planning visits to
lomatic relations weer restored Moscow and Peking. The er-
p
I, last July between Washington ratic p r I n c e sometimes has
and Phnom Penh, tit! [.'often made oral attacks on other na-
' t f .;a oti.tin
a
? along with Sihanouk, who fre-i
quently had accused ,the. CIAl11
of plotting against him.
The entire stiff of the U.S.
mission comprises only 11
Americans, headed by a charge
d'affaires rather than an am-
bassador. tic is one of only
three professionals, the other
two being a lower-ranking Ca-
reer Foreign Service officer and
a single defense attache.
One membdr of the embassy
staff is a boxing coach, a r2-
minder of the time In the early
the SMilwhen itaryhAssi rancecAdvis-
('~l ory Group used to tflav volley-
ball regularly with Sihanouk
and his team of Cambodian of-
fico.rs.
Officials expected Sihanouk
to return to Phnom Penh des,,
,rite the coup. They said they'
thnupht that the men who dc-
posed him would permit him-
to return wthout restricting his
movements there.
f the
sitfent
r
lf
h
.p
e
eng, p
eng
C
National Assembly, named In-
terim chief or state' pending
had been. acting 'chief
+elections
,
t?xif state since qi iarouk went to.
Paris last Jar.,iary on his an-
nual trip.
Cheng came out of an oU cute ..
civil ? ervice backgroui.d. He vas elected to the Nati.~.iatl As-.
seirrbly in 1955, re-e:6-led in-
1962 and defeated in 1900, lIe
The United Braces cut Off its
military assils~srrtta~ar?'a program in
requc t eT'Ko Rro4fi ti ?i` crn-
tinued to accept military aid
.. j; . P..
States deliberately has lrnpt a lions as par e
stance, apparently t.. a rah t-
was, secretary bf state for agri-
if, 0 t it ''
f
rom
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S EN. J. WILLIAM Fulbright of Ar- The intelligence agency is a con-,
kansas and Prince Norodom Si- venience in the case of Mr. Fulbright,
haflouk suddenly begin to sound alike. as well. He is one of a group of
i The Democratic chairman of the Sen- senators, most of them Democrats,
ate Foreign Relations Committee re- who were in the vanguard complain-
jects the assurances of President Nix- ing that the American people were not
on' that the Uz-ited States will not being told about Laos. Now that
become hopelessly entangled in Laos. President Nixon has ended his long-
The Central Intelligence Agency, acknowledged reluctance to reveal
the extent of U.S. involvement in
says Sen. Fulbright, is subtly,;and Laos, Sen. Fulbright and his friends`
irreversibly creating a new Vietnam are left with a bit less of an issue.
?1n Laos. In Paris, meanwhile, Cam- The senator, however, does not give
odia's chief of state warns Hanoi and up easily. There is enough U.S. activi s
the Viet Cong that unless they respect ty in Laos, both in aerial bombing and
his nation's neutrality, the~C"..&ud.? reconnaissance and in military advi-
his own army will depose .him in a sory groups, with which to irritate the
coup d'etat. nerves of a war-weary public.
Time was when Prince Sihanouk There is no question that the
found it much less difficult to be American people must be alert to
neutral on the side of the North avoid new embroilments of the type
Vietnamese and the Viet Cong and in the nation is now seeking to end in
opposition to the American presence Vietnam. Insofar as the pressures in'
across the border in South Vietnam. _ Congress and from the news media?
That was before Hanoi's forces and forced the President to report tho ,
the V.C. so blatantly used Cambodian extent. of U.S. involvement in Laos,
territory as a haven for hit-and-run public interest has been' served.
assaults into South Vietnam that one wonders now,' however, wheth-
Prince Sihanouk could no longer ig- er Sen. Fulbright's persistence on the
nore it. issue is still purely. a matter of
This week, Cambodians, unresisted serving public interest. One cannot
by police, sacked and burned the forget amid this new stridency on
North Vietnamese and National Liber- Laos that the senator still deplores his
ation Front embassies in Phnom Penh own successful'campaign for approval
and the traveling prince's position of the Tonkin Gulf resolution from
became even more difficult. His re- which active U.S. involvement in Viet-
tention as chief of state may be in nam really sprang. '
question but one suspects that his Is Sen.' Fulbright "really fearful that
allusion to the CIA was a convenient Laos will become a, new Vietnam or
device with which to dignify his warn- is he still doing penance for the
ing to Hanoi and the NLF. original?
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WARNING TO REDS
Says Their" Choice Is Neutral
Cambodia or Rightist Coup
By JOHN L. HESS
Special to The New York Times
PARIS, March 12 - Prince
Norodom Sihanouk said today
that the Communists had a'
choice between respecting Cam-
bodia's neutrality or seeing
pro-American rightists, take
over his Government.
The Cambodian chief of state
posed this alternative in a tele-
vision interview on the eve of
his departure for home by way
pf Moscow and Peking, to face
the?crisis posed by the sacking
yesterday of the North Viet-
namese and Vietcong embassies
in the Cambodian capital,
Pnompenh.
Speaking in a calm tone, the
- "IfvI do not obtain satisfac-
tion that the Communists will
respect Cambodia's neutrality,
then I will resign. A show-
down between the extreme
STATINTL
best Cambodia would be a sec-
ond Thailand and ? at worst it
would be a second Laos or.
South Vietnam."
"I do not want to see that
happen," he said.
'Imperialists' Are Blamed
Earlier, at the ' Paris peace
talks, a spokesman for the Viet
cong agreed with Prince Siha-;
a plot "to throw Cambodia into;
the arms of an imperialist capi-?,
talist power." '
t
d th
a
The spokesman asserte
it was American and thThai
at
agents, not the Vietcong,
had "attacked the Cneutrality
ambodia
and sovereignty for more than 15 years.
Nguyen Minh Vy, represent-
ing North Vietnam, told the
meeting that the Nixon Admin-
istration was developing "an-
other Vietnam" in Laos.
The Chief of the United
States delegation, Philip C.
Habib, spoke six times during
the session, demanding that thg
Vietcong, give their prisonerf
the ri ht to send and receive
mail. The other Side replied that
he was hyingrte- downgrade
right wing and myself is most
? "A coup d'dtat is possible, un-
less I step down before the.depose me- Everything is possi-
ble. I may be' beaten. I do not
like civil war. I do not want
to see bloodshed among my
compatriots."
Prince Sihanouk specifically
raised the possibility that Gen.
Lon Nol, commander of the
armed forces, might lead a
coup.
Many of his army officers,
Prince Sihanouk said, not only
are naturally right wing but
.also "are nostalgic about Ameri-
I can aid, which would enable
them to lead an easy life."
"The Americans are inside
the castle walls - that is, in-
.side our homes," he said. He
expressed certainty that right-
wing leaders in the parliament
and in his government had. cs
tabllshed contact with the
United States, "whether through
the embassy, the C.I.A. or any
such like organization, I do not
knout.
He declared 'that it .'.the
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[ By Stanley Karnow Estimate of 60,000 territory. Soon afterwards,
Washington Post Foreirn service Speaking at a National As- acted, Cambodian Foreign Minis-;
HONG KONG, March 11 sembly session, Traluch esti? Describing their activities ter Norodom Phurissara!
-The major assault by mated that as many aa In Phnom Penh, the deputy called in the North Vietnam-I
youths against the North Vi. 60,000 North Vietnamese said that Communists were ese and Vietcong envoys in,
and Vietcong troops wei 'fi- training Vietnamese stu- the capital and accused-
etnamese and National Lib- side Cambodia, dents and taxing Vietnam- 'their troops of both occupy-!
oration Front embassies In ing Cambodian soil ands
Phnom Penh today appears ouk In said Paris the number yesterday, had Sihan- de- .ese merchants in the capital:,. backing left-wing elements
to reflect a radical change creased from a November About a half million Vlet opposed to the government.
from Cambodia's formerly estimate of 40,000. He said' namese live in Cambodia. The diplomats denied the
close links with the Viet- that despite occasional I He - also alleged that'I charges and reasserted their
,namese Communists. clashes between Cambodian respect for Cambodian sov-,
. The demonstrations, un- pretty Vietnamese girls . ereignty, adding that the Vi-1
doubtedly organized with' and Communist troops his country maintained harmo were being recruited as etnamese seen inside Cam-i
-government sanction, repre- ,:spies to gain intelligence bodia were actually Saigon,
troops functioning under'
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sent grow
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n- with North Vietnam and the form high-ran
o- dignation against the virtual CIA orders "to destroy Cam-!
"Vietcong. dian army officers. ? , :
occupation of parts of the Traluch said the Commu-; Though the Cambodian'bodian-Vietnamese friend-
country by North Vietnam- nists occupied two-thirds ? of ? government sells rice and ship."
ese and Vietcong troops. northeastern Ratanakirit other foodstuffs to the Na- Unconvinced by this ex-
That the attacks against Province, adjacent to the, tional. Liberation ? Front
Lon N'
the Communist legations oc- South Vietnamese high-I under a formal trade agree- Planation,'Premier
-~l
Burred during Prince N'11M- told a -press conference in in ,
lands, and operated as well
dom Sihanouk's absence meat, Traluch and other As. October that some 40,000
fCambodia may aabsence' in Svay Rieng, Prey Veng, sembly members have con- ti In- from
opposition also ls to! , Kampot and Kandal prow tended thilt sumggling to Communist soldiers were
dicate Cambodia
inces. the Communists has reached 'then' "Implanted" Inside
the chief of state, who has. ,
Despite their professions, large proportions.
,consistently favored friendly, of sincere support," Traluch Much of the smuggling is Cambodia.
Iles with Hanoi and the) said, "our foreign friends reported. to be going on with I Accordingt of Lon Nol,.
ietcong. have deliverately nibbled who is also the highest-rank-
Sihanouk Is now in Paris t away at our national terrl- the connivance of Cambo ing Cambodian army gen-
'following medical treatment` ` tort'." - . than officials and army offs- eral, about 17,000 Commu.
In southern France for obes-I r The Cambodian deputy cers stationed in' the iron. nists were in the sparsely -
ity and high blood further alleged that the tier provinces. populated northeastern
pressure. A relative, Siso- Communists in Ratanakirl In an-, unusual move last ;provinces of Ratanakiri and
Province had built ' houses month, 'tlie Phnom Penh au- `Mondulkirt and roughly
lwath Sink Matak, has been' and planted crops "as if this thorities began examining 119,000 were In the densely
(in charge of the government 1 were their own country." He diplomatic pouches in an ap- populated frontier zone ad.,
since Sihanouk's departure also accused them of mobi. parent effort to block coun- joining South Vietnam's bfe?
lining the Khmer Lou, local terfeit Cambodian currency kong Delta.
in January. from being introduced in) The' premier asserted
According to an Aff;icial mountain tribesmen, to fight; to the country. ' later that. the Vietnamese
government statement, the.t the Cambodian army. Cambodian officials ' pri-"Communists had also set up
'.Phnom Penh demonstration A common Communist vately expressed the belief tour camps to train so called
Hollowed recent rallies in`! tactic, Traluch went on, is to that fake banknotes were.I Red Khmers, left-wing Cam-
open fire across the border being brought in by the, hodian insurgents. These?
Svay Rieng Province which at allied forces in South I North Vietnamese, Vietcong rebels have been especially
,demanded that the Vietcongl Vietnam and then flee, leav- , and Communist Chinese le-; active in western Battam?
quit Cambodian territory. ing Cambodian frontier vil- Rations to finance local; bang Province adjacent to'
The Council of Ministers lages exposed to retaliatory.: Communist activities. , Thailand.
{ shellings. While he consistently of Small Army
,has taken note of the wishes', "Therefore," he said, "The
of the demonstrators and Vietcong provoke the Amer.. firms his support for the the Cambodian army, agree uhat
considers their actions scans to bomb, our Cambo?Communist cause in Viet-, baring only about 35,000
"worthy of praise," the'' dian troops, who are not at. nam, Sihanouk has become men, is Incapable of coping
statement said. "The destiny ways strong enough to resist Increasingly alarmed at the+with the Vietnamese Com?
of the country Is at stake;' such attacks and must con- ' pervasive North Vietnamese munists inside the country.
se uently abandon their bor 1?
am n e s a ona seem; adjoining Vietnam, he re- 1 to subsist.
b ' I
~tia forces were sold to the {
ty, who elsdmed to haw ta+ turned to Phnom Penh and . la the estimation of aopA~_~
W.URiti the altuatio ~'~, mush cl
'
9
gnu Vietcong presence -In, Poorly equipped, espe-
it added, der posts, which the Com- i, ,s
The extent of Vietnamese :.munists then occupy." Cambodia.- rejection cially of since U.S. Sihanoukeconomic .'
Communist infiltration was i? Traluch ' Implied - -that The First Stone and military aid in 1963, the
disciosed b dl ' N last tl I A month by weapons distributed to Cam, - Last spring, after a trip to: 'army is reported to be hrav.
ADour Traluch, a member at. ', bodlen self-defense and mill- the northeastern provinces fly ,involved In corruption in
prove b rXVIV4 .~
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of national security, the Nixon ddmin-
',7L WERR JUST sitting, talking sane remedy as an alternative to the The Khmer Serai is characterized as
VY ... The next thing I knew; the; public retrial they seek. usually having operated from an op-
,car swerved, the windshield was shat-But the Rheault case never reached,; portunistic position to the right of Si. iered, glass fell out; Jimmy was lean-
court, and the McCarthy case already hanouk, although its leader is said to
ling forward, he had blood coming out: has. Despite censorship' of the record, ' have cooperated with the Communist.
?of his nose and mouth, and he looked it provides a rare public glimpse of led Vietminh before 1954, when Cam.
t like he was dead." clandestine U.S, operations in South. ! bodia was still part of French Indo-
`. Inchin Hia Lam, whose code name,'cast Asia. china. The more important opposition
.was "Jimmy,"? was indeed killed, a fact? What makes the McCarthy case to Prince Sihanouk in Cambodia is the
that effectively terminated his service,
more prickly from an intelligence- Khmer'Rouge (Cambodian Reds), who'.'
'.as interpreter for a secret operation diplomatic standpoint for the United cooperate with Communist Vietnam-
of the U.S. Special Forces (Green Be States' Is the fact that Lam was scam-ese forces.
rets). An official "termination" order! bodian, not a South Vietnamese. Lam
had been issued shortly before his Sihanouk s Charges
1
r Serai
mber of the Khm
l
.
e
so was a me
a
death, but the Intended method of a small now-disor? BEFORE THE Khmer Serai frag-
(Free Cambodia), ,
'separation was dismissal, not execu.,,,,e,, secret society that aspired to' mented, Prince Sihanouk repeat-
me
d
b
C
ian g--..
o
am
Sitting beside Lam when he died on everttu?uw the
of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. was colluding with the Khmer Serai,
fthe front seat of an automobile travel- : Lam had worked for the Green Be- Thailand, South Vietnam and other
was along a South Vietnamese highway '? ? rets from about 1965. When ho was "enemies" of his regime.
was Green Beret Capt. John 'J. Me- slain, he was working for a clandestine A typical Sihanouk charge came in
i c arthy Jr., who had been assigned to " ,1067 the year of Lam's "termination":
mis:,lon code-named "Project Cherry,
carry out the dismissal. His pistol, a, ' "The Khmer Seral, Americans, Viet
snub-nosed .38-caliber Smith and Wes- headed by Capt. McCarthy. The cap-
:son, discharged at about the time that; twin's public assignment was Detach- namese, Thai and South Koreans have
,
' ment B-57, Fifth Special Forces Group.'; joined forces in attacking us An.
"a projectile entered the back of the; other: "The Central Intelligence
head of the victim just within the ' (The same detachment was involved in
I the Ithcault case.) Agency has been able to bribe ... two
,hairline ... and exited from between, ? high-ranking officers of the Khmer
his lips ...," Whether Lam was hired just because;
he was a Cambodian or whether the (Cambodian) Armed Forces who have
Capt. McCarthy said his firing was:. considerable deposits in a Swiss bank"
accidental and only coincidental with; fact that he was a Khmer Serai had a for "starting a coup d'etat against Si-
aminer death. An Army medical ex bearing is not ascertainable from the . . ."
aminer testified at McCarthy's court heavily censored, version of the trial hanouk
martial that the projectile which killed, record which, after considerable prod-jI A' State Department spokesman Is.
the victim was a .22-caliber bullet, not'- ding, the press can inspect. sued a denial last month that was pref-
a .38. McCarthy nevertheless was con Exactly what mission Project Cherry aced by the I-am-told formulation often
vlcted of premeditated murder. performed also Is blanked out on that employed in refuting allegations con-
The incident could have come from' record, with empty pages marked "se- ! cerning CIA activities: "I'm informed :
the imagination of a Graham Greene' cret" or "confidential," and. elliptical , that the U.S. Government has never as
or a John Le Carre.' But it really took references to such cloak-and-dagger ac- sisted or cooperated with the Khmer
place-on Nov. 24,. 1967-and it could coutrements as "safe houses"--secret,; Serai movement."
produce' international travail for the quarters maintained by intelligence In the early 1960s, Prince Silianouk's.,
U.S. government if McCarthy's defense' agencies as presumably free from sur- relations with the United States were
attorneys succeed in convincing the veillance. . 'strained to near-breaking point over
Army's Court of Military Review that It is common knowledge in South . his allegations against the CIA. He in-
their client should have had an open' Vietnam, however, that members or: yoked those charges as justification
trial before a civilian court. the Cambodian minority (estimated at, for rejecting U.S. aid. Then, in 1965,
Capt. McCarthy, 27 and the, father three- . quarters of a million to a million Cambodia broke diplomatic relations,
of three, is free pending appeal from' ? people) are employed by the Ameri-: primarily on grounds that U.S. forces
`what originally was a life sentence at cans and the South Vietnamese for:-.were violating the Cambodian-South
hard labor but since has been, reduced open and secret work in the war. Vietnamese border.
to 20 years. The work Includes obtaining infor-'. In that period, Sihanouk, who bal-
ination about Vietcong and North Viet- , ances precariously between East and
While comparative2Y obscure, the namese forces who operate from a "sane West to preserve his neutral nation,
McCarthy case carries a larger pot,en tuary" across the border in Cambodia. expected the Vietnamese Communists
fiat for international complications
than` the celebrated Green Beret case' The Khmer Serai has ton;; expert-' to win the war in South Vietnam
last year, in which Special Forces Col. ence in penetrating that border. This:; Which they were doing. When the tide
secret organization has' disintegrated of war shifted, so did Sihanouk, openly
Robert B. Rheault and seven co-
defendants were accused of murdering considerably in the last two years, es- , declaring he was "caught between the
South Vietnamese who was a sus- pecially since some of its forces openly + hammer and the anvil." Last summer,
t su ort Prince Sihan: I the United States succeeded In re-'
r o
ected double agent. oukswu sng ove
government. pl? But according to establishing diplomatic relations with
To avoid exposure of Central Intelli-a U S Khmer Serai leader, I Cambodia.
gence Aggyp ?~ L6 aFtbl`.RB{*8%VnWM"rA it lAIRIM~0' t ~ 0MMw@ cor-
"' " `
"
North .V~etna
~'
hiding in South Vietnam. dial terms with both
~':'ontti
fltl'f?
""" " ' Land the Vietcong. But he now concedes
 and Quang Binh provinces.
Waves of U.S. bombers attacked the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on Wednes
day, the DRV charged, and three U.S,. planes,'were, - shot. ;.down over Ha ? Tinh
DRV negotiator, just before en-
tcring Thursday's session of the
,
Paris peace talks, said he would ?"
I L I~A RY
deliver a stiff protest to the U.S. . ? ' Y,
side "against this very serious
EATH .Y 0 L L
:'act of war." r.. ..:'..D D _ ''?
.DRV's Radio Hanoi said: "The ; ti
Americans blatantly sent numer-,; ,
ous aircraft to violate the air
space of the DRV, dropping
bombs and machine-gunning pop-',
'?ulated areas west of Ila Tinh and
.Quang Binh provinces."
DRV anti-aircraft fire knocked
down three planes and damaged
others, Radio Hanoi reported.
U.S sources in the Saigon mil-
Daily World Foreign Department.
X50, 3 0'9
itary command reported that on TOTAL D E A ?
Wednesday, MIG jet fighters - , -]
shot down a U.S. rescue helicop- ,
ter which was trying to pick up.... the Central Intelligence Agency''.'': McCarthy, Jr.
two American pilots "near the (CIA). McCarthy was convic
ted at the
Laos-North Vietnamese border.""This is an amazing thing for ?1968 court-martial of killing a
Tile U.S. airmen's plane, an F-105 ',:me to learn about," a Saigon re-_:;' Cambodian ' agent who was a
Thunderchief based in Thailand,.! gime spokesman insisted, adding. ;+-' member of the "Khmer Serei",
earlier had been shot down by' ,.he knew nothing about any such ;'and also a member of Detach-
.what the U.S. command called:'.,' case. "We have mutual under-."..ment B-57, Fifth Special Forces
"Communist gunfire." standing and cooperation with the ?~ ? Group, based in Nhatrang, South
,k In Saigon, meanwhile, the U.S. " ? U.S. Command," he said. Vietnam.
Embassy and the Saigon govern- ' ;', Later, the U.S. command in The . McCarthy case recalled
ment disclaimed any involvement Saigon announced it had revoked ,."the arrest last year of eight
in the province of the army Coun- mony he,t~t
ter-InteIi&Mo.' ,;F?C>Ral " =& taii~-.I Pr1 I ? 4 2~`~ 1 b
in the U.S. military command's the press credentials of two Sal-. ."Green Beret" officers, includ-
attempt to infiltrate the Saigon.; gon government agents who sim- ` `. ing. the commander of the Fifth
press 'corps with military Intel-',','; ilarly.had tried to'. infiltrate the" Special Forces Group, onv charges
li ence agents. g corps of U.S. and foreign news- of having murdered one of'. their
The two agents, Howard Heth- `men, on the same mission as South Vietnamese agents,.'
cox and William T. Tucker, P05` :?their U.S. counterparts. These+''' Trial records disclose that
cd as newsmen and were issued events follow on the heels of when Capt. McCarthy was asked'
? press cards by the U.S. command. ;,'? sweeping repression unleashed' r what the "Khmer Screl" was, he
The agents were identified by by the Thicu-Ky clique against:`"replied that it "is an organiza-,
the Defense Department as meal- .? Saigon opposition forces, tion which plans the political
bers of the army's Criminal In- CIA front In Cambodia' w,.overthrow of the Cambodian gov-
vestigation Division (CID). This week, motions filed by de-'"- ernment." McCarthy said that a
`? The CID generally handles ac fense lawyers before the Military .U.S.' government intelligence
tual criminal cases (theft, mur- Court of. Review in Washington agency, whose name he did not
der, etc.) involving army per-...'revealed that the CIA and -U. reveal, was engaged in the same
sonnet. But the two agents' mis- :,,"Special Forces" used the so-.type of operations in Cambodia
sion was to uncover American called "Free. Cambodia" (Khmer as the Special Forces.
newsmen's sources of information Serei) movement for secret op-.;'', So far as is -known, the Daily
in South Vietnam. This would 'orations in Cambodia, Laos and ., &World was the first U.S. news-
appear to place the mission with- South Vietnam. The sworn testi-;;''aper to charge, nearly 'a year
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