Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With an American photographer, a French guide and an escort of 70 Cambodian soldiers, Wharton established a study camp close to the kouprey country. There are only about 500 koupreys left, and although they are big animals (5 ft. 6 in. at the shoulders), they are as shy as deer. During the day they hide in the thickest jungle, grazing only at night. "They are so elusive," says Wharton, "that you might almost call them ghost animals. But they are the kings of wild cattle. They have grace and elegance not found in ordinary beasts...
Last week Cambodia's lingering peace was being disturbed by the trailblazers of Communism, filtering across its eastern marchlands from Red-infested Viet Nam, raiding its villages, waylaying its merchants and preaching revolt in the Royal Khmer (i.e., Cambodian) army. The Reds posed as patriots, burning to liberate Cambodia from French imperialism; in fact they were the vanguard of an uglier imperialism: Communist China's. Waist-deep in swamp and jungle fighting in the Red River delta, the French could do little to defend their Cambodian proteges from Communist attack. Instead, the 3,000,000 Cambodians relied...
First Things First. The King sits in his countinghouse in the many-templed Cambodian capital of Pnompenh (pop. 260,000), which a TIME correspondent visited last week. He had just sacked his Premier, Huy Kanthoul, for failing to put first things first, i.e., to get rid of Communism before getting rid of the French. Norodom shrewdly recognizes that an "independent" Cambodia would be a free gift to the Communists, if the French marched out. Last month he dismissed his nationalistic cabinet and took charge of the kingdom himself. His cabinet of princes (TIME, June 23), he announced, would stay...
Last week the King decided to take matters into his own hands. He fired Huy Kanthoul and appointed himself Premier. To man his new cabinet, he drafted a handful of Cambodian royalty, including (as Minister of Education) an able princess, Ping Pas Yukanthor. With the help of this "government of princes" the new Premier-King promises to clean up Cambodia within three years. At the end of that time, he plans to submit his actions to the judgment of a "people's court," with representatives of six foreign nations acting as impartial observers...
Call It Patriotism. The alarm, sounded a few minutes later, set off the biggest manhunt in Cambodian history, but failed to catch up with le petit Tho. Said General de Lattre de Tassigny: "Never before has terrorism revealed itself with more cruelty, cowardice or dishonor." At week's end the Viet Minh radio announced that "the patriot who liquidated Commissioner de Raymond is now safe...