Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pattern was repeating itself throughout Southeast Asia. In Thailand, four Chinese businessmen were shot to death in public on suspicion that they had burned their shops to get the insurance. In Cambodia, Chinese residents were barred from 18 occupations, ranging from barbering to pawnbrokering to, curiously enough, espionage. In Indonesia, Chinese traders and their families-some 300,000 people-were ordered to get out of rural villages by year's end. Not since the Japanese swarmed into the South Pacific in World War II have Asia's Overseas Chinese felt their position so threatened...
...jumps well, and has an instinct for not going too far. Without formal instructions from General Assembly or Security Council, he sent a personal representative to be watchdog (a U.N. "presence," he preferred to call it) to Jordan in 1958, one to Thailand to settle a boundary dispute with Cambodia, and another to help the fledgling republic of Guinea in 1959. Last week he applied the same technique in Laos...
...made-to-order opportunity to spread dissension would have brought the Soviets galloping to the scene with hot pronunciamentos and threats. And, in fact, Moscow did nothing to lessen Asian strains last week by sending a bristling note to London accusing the British of trying to draw neutral Cambodia "under foreign influence." But at the height of last week's festivities...
...meant to be a show of 'cordiality' and 'solidarity' . . . yet even in such a public performance, Macmillan spoke at the beginning of the broadcast of the 'differences' between the U.S.A. and Britain." At times Hsinhua plays another role: correspondents in Cambodia send home to Red China flattering stories about the country, which are gratefully reprinted in the Cambodian press-with full credit to Peking...
...less fitted to serve as a pivotal point in the struggle against Communism than Laos, a land of blue mountains, green jungles and affably unambitious people. Roughly the size of Oregon, Laos is shaped like a pistol with the butt pressing against Red China and the barrel aimed at Cambodia. Statistics are foreign to the Laotian mind, and the population can only be guessed at; estimates range from 1,000,-ooo to 4,000,000. Though it possesses two capital cities-Luangprabang for the royal family. Vientiane for the civil government-Laos has no railroad. Except for jungle paths, navigable...