The World - News from April 24, 1985
Prince Norodom Sihanouk has asked to resign as president of Cambodia’s precarious anti-Vietnamese guerrilla coalition, foreign diplomats in Peking said. They said Sihanouk wrote to Khieu Samphan, Khmer Rouge leader and premier of the coalition, tendering his resignation for health reasons. The coalition links the non-communist forces of Sihanouk and former Cambodian Premier Son Sann with those of the Communist Khmer Rouge, blamed for more than a million deaths when they ruled Cambodia from 1975 to early 1979.
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