CAMBODIA: Unorthodox King

Norodom Sihanouk, the King of Cambodia, is an unorthodox young (30) monarch who plays the saxophone and composes jazz, has a personal troupe of 30 dancing girls and an air-conditioned throne room, and refuses to wear the $15,000 diamond-studded derby inherited from his kingly grandfather. But nothing in King Norodom's career was quite so unorthodox as the way he went to war last year against the Communist enemies of his small kingdom in southern Indo-China.

Tired of Red infiltrators, he fired his cabinet. Leaping into his black Jeepster, supported by a bodyguard of 150 Cambodian stalwarts, he joined his six Cambodian...

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