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CAMBODIA AIRPORTS SHUT Radio Announced seized by Lieut. Gen. Lon Noi, the Premier and Defense Min- ister, and the First Deputy Pre- SIHANOUK REPORTED OUT mier, Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak, a cousin of Priace Sihanouk. Cheng Heng, President of the IN A COUP BY HIS PREMIER; National Assembly, has been designated as interim Chief of State, pending elections, the radio announced. Informed CAMBODIA AIRPORTS SHUT Poinpenh sources consider him ,,Z60111611 a figure of negligible political stature. Sihanouk Sought Balance When the announcement of his overthrow was made Prince Sihanouk, who is 47, was in Moscow where he had arrived from Paris five days ago, and was preparing to depart for Peking. - [Prince Sihanouk left Mos- cow for Peking Wednesday several hours after he had been toppled as Cambodia's_ leader. The Prince acted as if he were still Chief of State but spoke of the possibility of forming a government in exile.] The announcement came after a week of anti-Communist' rioting, reportedly officially in spired, in which the embassies! of North Vietnam and the Viet- cong were sacked. These events moved Cambodia close to open United Press International Continued From Page 1, Col. 1 Kosygin bidding good-by to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cam- Soviet Premier Aleksei N. hostility with the Vietnamese bodian Chief of State, who ended a four-day visit to Moscow and was on way to Peking. Communists, who are operating in large number on the Cam- bodian side of the long frontier PRINCE IS ABROAD with South Vietnam. e.; /9 Al ei■ 14. 7 Last Friday, the Cambodian government asked North Viet- namese and Vietcong troops to leave the country by dawn Leaving Moscow For Sunday. Meetings on the de- mand have been held subse- Peking, He Hints at quently in Pnompenh, but no progress has been reported. Prince Sihanouk, a neutralist, an Exile Regime Nvhose policies swerved often between right and left in an effort to strike a balance, is By HENRY KAMM known to have struggled for a Special to The New Yoek Times year against the hard anti- BANGKOK, Thailand, March Communist position of General 18—Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Lon Nol and Prince Sirik Matak. Chief of State of Cambodia. According to informed was overthrown today in his I' sources, that struggle precipi- tated Prince Sihanouk's down- alasence, the Pnompenh radio fall, but was not its principal announced. cause. Power has apparently been What brought him down, the Sources said, was his cult of personality, his expensive striv- ing for grandeur, the stagna- , tion of Cambodia's economy, the corruption of leading per- sonalities and the bureaucracy and widespread smuggling and Sihanouk Shifted to Right trading in contraband goods. traffic for the Cambodian cap- ciptal. On board, the stewardess In the No reports of violence at- view of the sources could be heard to announce recently in Prompenh Prince tendant on today's events have that the landing was imminent. Sihanouk in his last year as reached the outside world. But then the pilot's voice came Chief of State had shown a Cambodia is cut off except for over the public-address system pronounced shift to the right the broadcasts, which are being to announce that Pnompenh toward the position of his pro- Airport was closed and he was nouncements against the Com- received here imperfectly, on turning the jet back toward munists and had noticeably di- powerful monitoring equipment. Bangkok. minished his tendency to bal- Cable and telephone, connec- No reason was given, the ance anti-Communist state- tions are not functioning. pilot said. The mystery persisted ments with strident attacks on Airports Closed until shortly before 3 P.M. The "American imperialism." Cambodia's two commercial Pnompenh station then came on Nevertheless, the increasing airports, Pnompenh and Siem- the air to announce that a Cam- pressure of the North Vietna- reap, were closed to all traffic bodian Government communi- mese and Vietcong largely be- shortly after noon today with- que was being read to a spe- ause of their increasing need out prior warning. The war in cial session of the National As- South Vietnam and Laos, an I sembly. In the statement, the Govern- to find sanctuary in territory political strains with Cam- safer from American firepoweri bodia's other neighbor, Thai- ment accused the Vietnamese Communists of spreading false than South Vietnam, heightened land, have effectively cut off the political struggle in Cam- access to Cambodia by. road. rumors, bribing Cambodian of- ficials and distributing anti- bodia by causing discontent Neighboring countries learned with Prince Sihanouk's policies of the events in Pnompenh from Government leaflets, all in an effort to set Cambodians against within the military, the sources a French-language broadcast said. that said: Cambodians. "Following the political crisis In view of this, and for rea- The soldiers were described provoked by Prince Norodom sons that were not stated, the as exasperated by apparent Sihanouk in the past days, the Government announced that it differences in the Chief of National Assembly and the was relieving the Pnompenh State's words and his actions. Royal Council in joint session, police chief of his functions They charged that though the and would take "extreme meas- Prince condemned the Vietna- in accordance with the con- mese Communists as the enemy stitution of the Kingdom, unan- ures" to restore calm. Although the Pnompenh radio in speeches, he forced the imously withdrew their con- Cambodian military to release fidence from Prince Norodom usually goes off the air at 3 o'clock, it stayed on after the all Vietcong they captured. announcement, broadcasting They saw a contradiction be- Sihanouk. From this day, 18 light music. tween his complaints that the March 1970 at 1300, hours [1 The announcement, although Vietcong were deriving much A. M. Wednesday, New York indiCating that serious events of their food through illegal time], Prince Norodom'Sihanouk were in progress, did not cause purchases from Cambodian ceases to be the Chief of State analysts here to suspect , that farmers and his recognition last of Cambodia and will be re- a move against Prince Sihanouk year of the Vietcong's so-called placed by Cheng Heng, the was in preparation. No accusa- provisional revolutionary gov- President of the National As- tion, not even implicitly, was ernment and his subsequent sembly, who will assume the addressed to him. signing of a trade agreement function of the Chief of State Music Interrupted with it. until the election of a new The military were said to re- Chief of State in accordance At 5:07 P.M., the music was sent what they considered with the text of the nation's interrupted for the communique Prince Sihanouk's afribiguous Constitution " containing the decisive an- policy of ordering the armed Prince Sihanouk had left nouncement of Prince Siha- forces to intervene against Pnompenh on Jan. 6 for the nouk's overthrow. American attacks on Vietnamese announced purpose of taking a Prince Sihanouk abdicated communist military targets on cure in Grasse, France, for the throne of Cambodia in Cambodian soil. Cambodian obesity and a blood disorder. 1955, because, he said, the gunfire was reported to have He set out on the return jour- monarch was the prisoner of brought down an American ney, with scheduled stops in a rigid system and could not fighter - bomber attacking a Moscow and Peking, after the serve his people as effectively Vietnamese anti-aircraft posi- rioting broke out. as he wished. He became Chiei tion in Cambodia last Novem- The first indication of events of State. ber. The result was a heavy more serious than the rioting His father, King Norodom American attack on the Cam- and the challenge last Friday Suramarit, succeeded him. bodian installation that killed by Cambodia to the Vietnamese Since his death in 1960, hi: 27 Cambodians. Communists to withdraw their wife, Queen Kossamak Neari- These sentiments were said troops came today with the reath, - has represented the to have contributed to turning sudden closing of Pnompenh monarchy while the throne re- General Lon Nol from a loyal Airport. mains vacant. follower of the Prince into a' A Union of Burma Airways Mr. Cheng Heng went on the determined opponent. The gen- commercial flight left here for air after Prince Sihanouk's eral's control of the small mili- Pnompenh at 11:30 A.M. after ouster was announced to de- tary forces—about 35,000 in a clare his acceptance of the title nation of 7 million—is said to receiving clearance for the 50- of Acting Chief of State. minute flight from the Saigon He was elected President of be complete. Control Tower, which directs the National Assembly in 1968 Opposition of Cousin and re-elected last year. He is Prince Sirik Matak's opposi- a wealthy lawyer and former tion was said to have been Agriculture Minister. No date rooted more in his dis- has been announced for the election of a new Chief of State. approval of what he considered his cousin's flamboyant megalo-I leral Lon Nol were reported to mania, Prince Sihanouk's in- have agreed by last summer sistence on nationalization of that the only way to return Cambodia's few industries, Cambodia to order was to limit wastefullness in the use 4341 the Chief of State's exercise of limited investment capital and power. The issue was at the tolerance of widespread corrup- center of the 27th Congress last tion. June of the Sanglturn, the polit- Prince Sirik Matak, according ical movement founded by to the sources, was leader of a Prince Sihanouk to group all body of opinion that believed political factions under,one or- that Prince Sihanouk was con- ganization, with himself on top.
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