In Cambodia, where virtually everyone has a favorite fortune teller, the advice of astrologers often determines whether armies advance, governments fall or prime ministers take trips. When rebels bombed his presidential palace recently, Marshal Lon Nol was rumored to have fired some of his senior soothsayers. Last week TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand ventured into the back streets of Phnom-Penh to visit a gray-haired old astrologer whose clients include the marshal himself. Hillenbrand's report:
THE astrologer's mind is quick, despite his 72 years, and the irises of his blue-black eyes seem enormous. He sat in an oversized lounge chair beneath a whirling...
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