Cambodia: Big Puffs & Old Paper

The shame of it all! There he was in North Korea, fresh from a swinging two-week state visit to Red China and ready to head for Russia, when the Soviet ambassador rang up for an urgent interview. As Prince Norodom Sihanouk explained it to his fellow Cambodians at a rally last week, the Soviet ambassador "entered the drawing room where I was waiting, sat on a sofa with his legs crossed, lit a cigarette in a free and easy manner and started taking big puffs." Then, continued the Prince, "he started reading to me a note on...

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