King Sihanouk Offers to Mediate
From Times Wire Reports
King Norodom Sihanouk offered to mediate an accord to end two months of warfare between the forces of coup leader Hun Sen and the king’s son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh. Calling his country “an island of war,” the frail monarch, who returned to his homeland last week after six months of medical treatment in China, said that free elections are impossible in Cambodia until there is peace between his son and the rival who deposed him.
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