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The war, after all, is not between the U.S. and neutralists, though they often make it more difficult, but between the U.S. and Communism—with those in between straining anxiously to spot the winner. So far, given the pullback from the Yalu in Korea, the messy compromise in Laos, and the stalemate in Viet Nam, Washington has not yet demonstrated that it knows how to tame the dragon in Never-Never Land. Until the U.S. does so, the Sihanouks will have reason to run scared.
*The other wives: Kanhoe, member of the Royal Cambodian Ballet, now divorced and remarried; Princess Sisowath Phongsanmoni, half sister of his mother, also divorced and remarried; Princess Sisowath Monikessan, who died after bearing one son; Mam Manivan, a Lao girl whom Sihanouk brought back from Vientiane after an official visit in 1949 (her present status is unclear); Princess Norodom Thavet Norleak, a first cousin whom the prince married in 1955 and who technically ranks as No. 1 wife.