THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1975 Sihanouk Is W ling to Pass Up Cambodian Rule NYTimes AP-K-2-4 19 Dispatch of The Times, London in Cambodia because the leader on the Communist death PEKING, April 23—Prince Khmer Rouge victorCIN,consti- list has fled to Thailand, leav- Norodom Sihanouk has said tuted "the only valid popular ing only two of the seven that he will not be upset if the verdict." unaccounted for. victorious Khmer Rouge did It -was the leaders of the Thai officials said that for- not abide by their offer to let Khmer Rouge themselves who mer Premier In Tam fled across him return to Cambodia as' asked me to remain as chief the border Saturday with three chief of state. of state of Cambodia until my other persons as they were In a statement circulated death," Prince Sihanouk said. being fired on by Communist here, the Prince said that he "If one day these leaders soldiers. The officials said that did not want to return to change their minds about me I the four men were in police Phnom Penh, which had "bad shalj not be upset in the least custody in Prachin Burl Prov- memories" for him and would since the only goal of my life ince, near the border. has been already achieved: the instead ask the Khmer Rouge Mr. In Tam headed the gov- to restore the airport near the total and irreversible liberation of Cambodia and the restoration ernment in Phnom Penh in ancient capital of Angkor. 1973 while. President Lop Nol There, he said, he would bring of its independence and its nonalignment." was in the. United States for the ashes of his mother. She is medical treatment. After the ill in Peking and the Prince In Tam in Thailand Communists captured Phnom said she would die shortly. Penh, he Vowed to lead a guer- Prince Sihanouk said that BANGKOK, Thailand, April rilla movement in northwest elections would be unnecessary 23_4AP)—Another Cambodian Cambodia.