* Khmer Bleu, Sihanouk's domestic opponents on the right, whom he so named to distinguish them from his domestic opponents on the left, the ' Khmer Rouge '

While Sihanouk's deal with China and Vietnam in the short term kept both countries from arming the Cambodian left, it did not prevent the Cambodian left from launching an unsupported rebellion on its own.

Despite Sihanouk's allegations, there is no evidence that this coup was planned by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

The Khmer Republic's leadership was plagued by disunity among its three principal figures: Lon Nol, Sihanouk's cousin Sirik Matak, and National Assembly leader In Tam.

However, events rapidly developed far beyond the original plan, and with the encouragement of Sirik Matak – who wished to see Sihanouk deposed as Head of State – Lon Nol was ultimately to engineer Sihanouk's removal.

The Khmer Republic ( 1970 – 1975 ) was founded in order to do away with Cambodia's widespread corruption and to restore Cambodia's sovereignty in its eastern regions, occupied by Vietnamese communist insurgents as a result of Sihanouk's " neutrality " policies.

Sihanouk's package contained a bomb, but the other did not ; however, Vakrivan opened both on behalf of the monarch and was killed instantly, as was a servant.

Another important factor was the dire state of the Cambodian economy, an indirect result of Sihanouk's policies of pursuing neutrality through virulent anti-Americanism.

The character of the new regime was right-wing and nationalist ; most significantly, it ended Sihanouk's period of covert cooperation with the North Vietnamese regime and the Viet Cong, and aligned Cambodia with South Vietnam in the ongoing Second Indochina War.

On October 9, Sihanouk was condemned to death in absentia by a military court ; his mother, Queen Kossamak-the symbolic representative of the monarchy under Sihanouk's regime-was placed under house arrest, and his wife Monique was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The relatively small royal army, which at the time of the coup had around 35, 000 troops ( in accordance with Sihanouk's stated policy of neutrality ), was greatly expanded.

Almost from the start, the Republic was plagued by many of the same political divisions and infighting that had marked Sihanouk's regime ; primary among these was a damaging power struggle between Lon Nol and Sirik Matak.

Khieu Samphan was the only person to serve in this office, which he assumed after Sihanouk's resignation.

After the event was over, the participants were dragged from their cars and beaten with rifle butts by Sihanouk's police and army.

Within days, l ' Observateur and two other papers were closed by the government, fifty people were detained indefinitely for questioning and the political director of Sihanouk's own newspaper was fired for an editorial objecting to heavy-handed political intimidation.

A third development was Sihanouk's own belief that he had been targeted by United States intelligence agencies for replacement by a more pro-Western leader.

By the late 1960s, Sihanouk's delicate domestic and foreign policy balancing act was beginning to go awry.

After the communist victory in the Cambodian Civil War in 1975 and their establishment of Democratic Kampuchea, Sihanouk's supporters were sidelined and purged, while Sihanouk himself was placed under effective house arrest.

Kang's backing of Pol Pot was an effort to back his own cause within the Chinese Communist Party, as his touting of Pol Pot as the true voice of the Cambodian revolution was in large part an attack on the Chinese Foreign Ministry, whose pragmatic support for Prince Sihanouk's regime was thereby presented as reactionary.

He was eventually forced to resign after losing a vote of no-confidence in the National Assembly ; he was considered to have committed lèse majesté by not following Sihanouk's demands closely enough.

A civil war raged during the 1980s opposing the government's Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Armed Forces against the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea, a government in exile composed of three Cambodian political factions: Prince Norodom Sihanouk's Funcinpec party, the Party of Democratic Kampuchea ( often referred to as the Khmer Rouge ) and the Khmer People's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ).

Prince Sihanouk's powers of prognostication some day may be confirmed but history is not likely to praise the courage of his convictions.

Sihanouk's " royal crusade for independence " resulted in grudging French acquiescence to his demands for a transfer of sovereignty.

However members of the government and army, who resented Sihanouk's ruling style as well as his tilt away from the United States, did have a motivation to overthrow him.

Members of the Pracheachon were subject to constant harassment and to arrests because the party remained outside Sihanouk's political organization, Sangkum.

* Kingdom of Cambodia ( Cambodia, March – August 1945 ) – King Norodom Sihanouk's regime with Son Ngoc Thanh as Prime Minister after proclaiming independence from France.

Sihanouk's public criticism and mockery of the Khmer Viet Minh had the damaging effect of increasing the power of the hardline, anti-Vietnamese, but also anti-monarchist, members of the CPK, led by Pol Pot.

Two suitcases were delivered to the Sihanouk's palace, one addressed to the head of state, and the other to Prince Vakrivan, his head of protocol.

The explosion happened adjacent to a room in the palace where Sihanouk's parents were present.

Meanwhile, the mutineers had turned the ship over to Prince Norodom Sihanouk's government, declared themselves anti-war revolutionaries, and were granted asylum.

The main causes of the coup were Norodom Sihanouk's toleration of North Vietnamese activity within Cambodia's borders, allowing heavily armed Vietnamese Communist outfits de facto control over vast areas of eastern Cambodia.

Despite these actions, which directly contradicted Sihanouk's policy of partial tolerance of North Vietnamese activity, it appears that Lon Nol himself had great personal reluctance to depose the Head of State: he initially may merely have wanted Sihanouk to apply more pressure to the North Vietnamese.

Sihanouk's domination of political life during the 1950s and 60s meant that there were few confident or experienced Cambodian politicians.

Members of the Pracheachon were subject to constant harassment and to arrests because the party remained outside Sihanouk's Sangkum.

Predominantly animist peoples, with few ties to the Buddhist culture of the lowland Khmers, the Khmer Loeu had resented Sihanouk's attempts to " civilise " them.

I am concerned here, however, with the Northern liberal's attitude toward the South.

Nothing is more revealing of the way of life and literary aspirations of this group than their attitude toward sex.

Perhaps the public's present attitude toward business stems from the fact that the `` rugged capitalist entrepreneur '' no more exists in America.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

Like Roosevelt, he can distinguish an attitude toward a Russian leader he may share with a host of Americans from the responsibilities diplomatic convention may impose upon him.

Faulkner's total works today, and in fact those of his works which existed in 1946 when Mr. Cowley made his comment, or in 1939, when Mr. O'Donnell wrote his essay, reveal no such simple attitude toward the South.

This rather detached attitude toward life's encumbrances has seemed to be the dominant trait in Mercer's personality ever since.

Plato's attitude toward poetry has always been something of an enigma, because he is so completely sensitive to its charm.

This involves a shift in Patchen's attitude and it is a first step toward writing a new jazz poetry.

All across the South there are signs that racial violence is finding less approval among whites who themselves would never take active part but might once have shown a tolerant attitude toward it.

Your suggested solution, it seems to me, is grossly oversimplified and is inconsistent with your generally realistic attitude toward, and endorsement of, sound planning.

What better affirmative step could be taken to this end than repeal of the Connally amendment -- an act which could expose the United States to no practical risk yet would put an end to our self-judging attitude toward the court, enable us to utilize it, and advance in a tangible way the cause of international law and order??

Mary's supercritical attitude toward Byron had nothing to do with his moral disrepute.

This air of disengagement carried over to his apparent attitude toward his things, and people often mistook it for boredom in him or a surrender to repetitious routine.

As the ungoverned days of the automobile and the airplane are long since relegated to the past, so is the carefree attitude toward what a boatman may and may not do ; ;

This kind of irresponsibility toward their students can scarcely build a strong professional attitude in the future designer.

Has your attitude toward employee benefits encouraged an excess of free `` government '' work in your plant??

Fifth, in the segregated school system or in the all-Negro or all-white schools, how can we encourage better group relations or an improved attitude toward people who do not belong to the group??

We are saying that the pain was bad when and as it occurred and before anyone took an attitude toward it.

but unfortunately the rabbit, on no grounds at all, took up toward this neutral object an attitude of disapproval and that made it for the first time, and in the only intelligible sense, bad.

We all believe that toward acts or effects of a certain kind one attitude is fitting and another not ; ;

For before someone takes up an attitude toward death, suffering, or their infliction, they have no moral quality at all.

While we, as American artists, believe deeply in the universal character of all intellectual activity, we would be less than honest with you, or ourselves, if we failed to state a specific attitude toward our own society as well as the international community as a whole.

In addition, it is an important link in the plot, giving us a revealing glimpse of the people's attitude toward Boris and the false Dimitri.

Second, the attitude in Jewish families is far more protective toward the daughter than toward the son.