The man who would be king again. (Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia) (Asia)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: September 29, 1990 | Copyright information

THE humble people of Cambodia are the most wonderful people in the world. Their great misfortune is that they always have terrible leaders who make them suffer. I am not sure that I was much better myself, but perhaps I was the least bad." So once said Prince Norodom Sihanouk, erstwhile god-king of Cambodia, in an unusual moment of clear-sightedness.

The prince, now 68, has reached a decisive moment in his long campaign to return to the throne from which he was ousted in...

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