January 1979 and June 1985. He was no doubt Cambodia's most influential, most charismatic, and most erratic leader. The on again, off again King. Norodom Sihanouk: wily politician, honored guest of the Chinese and North Koreans, musician, movie maker, and monarch. I met Samdech Sihanouk twice - first in Beijing, then five years later in North Korea. In both encounters the strength of his eccentric, magnetic personality was amply displayed.
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1979. Vietnamese troops took the Cambodian capital in January. On April 12, four years to the day of my hasty retreat by helicopter from “the Khmer Republic,” I crossed the border from Vietnam to Cambodia. Highway One from Bavet to Phnom Penh was a road of human misery.
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November 1979 to January 1980. By the time I returned to Cambodia in November, Vietnamese control over most of Cambodia seemed complete. The devastated country however was locked in the grip of a deadly famine; one made worse by a cruel international political game played by the big powers.
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