INTERNAL POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN CAMBODIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-262-6-80-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2011
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: March 9, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJFCT UNDAY CARLE SumMARY
SUBJEO: INTERNAL PnLITICAL DEVFLOPmENTS IN CAMBODIA
AN uNTIDy sITOATION IA DEvELOPING ON THE oOmESTIc pOLITIOAL
FRONT YN pHNom PENH, ON FRIDAY, PRIME mTNISTER LONG moRET
REpoRTEDLy ANNOUNCED HTS INTENTIoN To sUBMIT HIS RESIGNATION in
PREsIDENT LON NUL FARLI NEWT REEK, nURET CLAIMED THAT Hf HAD
NO REA! INTENTION DE STEPP/NG DOWN WIT THAT TENDERING HIS RESIGNA"
TION wAS THE ONLY WAY nE GETTING LON NOL Tn FocuS ON THE NEED FoR
INCREAAING CIVILIAN CONTROL OvER THE MILITARY FSTAHL/SHMENT,
BORET APPARENTLY HAS tHE BACKING OF THF NATIONAL ASSEMRLY ANP
SENATE; kARLIER TO'S WEEK THEy PASCO TWO RES0EuTIMNA ASKING FOR
INCREAAEn PowERs FnR THE CIVILIAN noVERNmENT, UNcONFIRmF0 PRESS
REPORTS FROM PHNOM PENH %Aim THAT LON Nnk. HAs 0100 BoREy
FORm A NW GovERNmENT sUGGESTING THAT THE PRIME mINISTER HAS
ALREADY ROUGHT THF ISSUE TO A HFAD,
BORFT'S ImmroTATE OBJECTIvE Is ALMOST CERTAIN, THE RrmOvAL
OF CAMA0n/AN ARMY COMMANOERyIN0CHIFF SoSTHENr. FERNANnEZ, WITH
WHOm soRET HAS SEEN FEUDINs FoR somE TImE, WITH THE APPOINTmENT
OF A mnRr COMPATIBLE ARMY COMHANDER, 6nRET HnPFS TO CUmBINE THE
OFFICES OF COmmANOERwIN-CHTEE AN!) nEFENsE mINIsTER TN oRnER TO MAKF
THE MILITARY LESS INnEPENOFNT AND IMMUNE FROM CIYILIAN POLICY
OECIsTnNS,
iN NORMAL TIMFS# SORT'S EFFORTS TO EFFECT SI1CH FHNOAMENTAL
CHANGES IN THE RELATIONSHIP SETwEEN THF MILITARY ESTASLIAmmENT AND
THE CIVILIAN GOORNmFNI wou0 PROSABLY HAVE RESULTED IN A MAJOR
POWER sTRuGGLE BETwEEN THE Two SECTORS, FERNANDEZ, HOWEVER,
ApPEARS To HAVE BECOME A SCAPED04T FoR THE GOvERNmENTSIS STEADY
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MILITARY sETSACKs, THE GROUNDsKELL AMOP4G HILITA y AND CIVILIAN
LEADERS FOR HIS REMOVAL HAS OvERSHADoNE0 THE LARGER IsSuF op
CIVILIAN cONTRDL, DvER THF MILITARY,
THUS, OOTH oNET AND ION .NDL PROsolLY vIEN THE RESHUFFLING
THAT IS APPARENTLY UNDER WAY AS A PRo FORMA FKIERCISE TO EASE OUT
FERNANDEZ AND TO EFFECT OTHER HINoR CHANES WHICH WILL SPARK
LITTLE CONTROVERSY AND WHICH CAN at ACHIEVED RFLATTVELY SMOOTHLY,
THERE TS cONSIDERABLE RISK, HowEvER, THAT UNDER PRESENT CONDITIONS
THE HOVE COULU BACWFTRE, soRET, FOR EXANPLE, MIGHT FIND IT
DIFFICULT TO FIND WILLING OR ACCEPTARLE REPLACEMENTS FOR FERNAN0E1
OR ANY OTHER uFFICTAL WHO oEPARTfO, AND HIS POSITION AS PRIME
PIN1sTER CUL() St JE4PoRDI7ED, THE CURRENT THREAT THAT COMMUNIST
ARTILLERY FIRE WILL MALT THE VITAL US AIRLIFT HAS ALSO UNDOUSTFOLT
INCREASED THE CONVICTIONS OF MANY INFLUENTIAL CAHaoDIANS THAT THE
IMPASSE ON NEGOTIATIONS MUST BE 61inKEN BEFORE THE GoviHNHENT'S
mILITARY POSITION cRuNSLEs COMPLETELY, THESE FLFMENTS MIGHT TRY
EXPLUTT EVEN A MINOR RESHUFFLING TO FORCE MORE ORAMAT/C
CMANGES0..*SUCH AS THE DEPARTURE OF ION NOt. HIMSELEmmTHAT THEY
SELIPyr ARE NECESSARY To BRING THE FIGHTING To AN END.
sumjEcT: STRAINS TN iiREEK CYPRIOT UNITY
THE TENUOUS UNITY AMONG GREEK CYPRIOTS HAS roME UNDER STRAIN,
THE CYPRUS GOVERNMENT SAID YEATERAY TT WAS READY TO TAKE "ALL
NECESSARY STEPS" TO CRusH ANY FRESH ATTEMPTS BY EXTREME RIGHTISTS
TO OVERTHROW IT, THE STATEMENT WAS APPARENTLY MADE IN RESPONSE
TO CHARGES BY VARIOUS PROrMAKARTOS GROUPS THAT THE REMNANTS
OF THE Enos's TERRORIST ORGANIZATION sHIcof PARTICIPATED TN THE
COUP AGAINST MAKARTOS LAST SOmNER WERE PREPARING A NEW CAMPAIGN
OF VIOLENCE* THESE GROUPS cLATH THAT THE Roy AGAINST THE GREEK
GOVERNMENT ay SUPPORTERS OF THE FORMER JUNTA DIsCovERED ON
FERRHARy 2A WAS ALSO AIMED AT THE HAKARIns GOvERNHENT, As EKELDSToN
AT THE CHURCH OF CYPRUS OFFICES IN LIMASSOt ON MARCH 4 MAY HAVE
BEEN PERPETRATED BY FOKA*B TERRORISTS,
CTA RELIEVES THAT PRESIDENT HAKARTOS WILL: Mit UNDER INCREASE!)
PRESSURE TO PURGE RICHT?WjND EXTREMISTS FROM THE SUREACRACY, ANO
THIS COULD PROVOKE A VIOLENT REACTION FROM THE EXTREME RIGHT,
IT DOES NOT APPEAR, HOWEVER, THAT THE EXTREME RIGHT IS IN A POSITION
TO MOUNT A SUCCESSFUL COUP A AINST MAKARIOS AT THIS TIME.
SUSJEcTs 'BREIHNEv MAY TRAVEL ABROAD
THeRF IS A RUMOR MAKING THE ROUNDS IN MOSCOW THAT BREZMNEV
WILL; ATTEND THE HUNGARIAN COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS THAT OPENS
IN BUOAPEsT ON MARCH 17,
A ROmANTAN DIPLOMAT, 1040 MADE NO CLAIM TO HAVING INsIOE
INFORMATION, HAS Tno THF OS EMBASSY THAT BRFZHNFy WILL WANT TO
ATTEND THE EAST EUROPEAN PARTY CONGRESSES.-OF WHICH HUNGARY IS THE
PIRSiTiowAS A MARMA.,UP FOR THE sovIETS, OWN CONGRESS NEXT YEAR,
THE RDNANIANts REASONING MAKES SOME SEmAr. AND HIS VIFW
SMARri) BY THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR,
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y15/TIN6 PARIS EARLY LAST p CENBER4
SUBJECT, FURTHER DEMONSTRATIONS IN PORTUGAL
LUTIST DEMONSTRAInRS Y SIFROAY SURROUND D POLICE HEADDUARTERs 4
SETusAL To pRoTEsT 'POLTcE mETsnoS USE0 TO BREAK Up AN
FAME:Mr LEETi-wING ATTACK ON A MEETING mF THE CENTER-LEFT POPULAR
DEmoCRATTc PARTY. PoLirE ANO DEmONSTRATURS EXCHANGED GuNFIRE IN
FRIDAY NIG,HTI$ CLASH, RESULTING IN THREE DEATHS, THE FIRST To OcCUR
SINCE ACTIVE PARTy CAMPAIGNING BEGAN SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, THE POLICE
ARE KEEPING 00 OF SIGHT, AND PUBLIC SECURITY IS BEING
HANDLED HY HILITARy yRoops RusHEo TNFPom LIssoN, FIFTEEN MILLS
Asa%
THE POPULAR oEmoCRATS FEAR THAT THE INCIDENT WILL PROvIDE
FUEL. FOR LFET/S7 MILITARY OFFICERS WHO FAVOR CANCELLING THF APRIL 12
FLECTION5 ON THE ?RouNOS THAT PUBLIC ORDER CANNOT BE MAINTAINED,
PARTY soORCES CLAIM THE ISSUE WAS OIScUssED By THE ARMED FORCES
moVEmENT's SOPER/oR rOUNCIL YESTERoAy,
.LATrsT PRESS REPORTS ToicATt THAT THE DENoNsyNATOps IN.
sETOBALHAVE DISPERSED PEAcEPULLv, A LEFTIST oEmoNsypATIoN TN
ORCIRTO, PORTUGAL/5 SECOND tARGEST CITY, WHICH WAS IN REACTION TO
THE SETUBAL 0/sTuRBANCE, ALsO BRIIKE UP WITHOUT INcIDENT, OUT
PDLITICAL TENSIOHS REMAIN HIGH.
SUSJEcTs komANIAN nEsIRE To PARTICIPATE IN INTER-cYPRIOT TALES
WELL, INFnRMED TURKISH SOURCES IN ANKARA HAVE STATED THAT A
RDHANIAN PROPOSAL "FDP THF PARTICIPATION nF THE UALKAN STATES IN
THE INTER?CyPRI0T TALKS HAS BEEN 000FFEn By TURKEY, THE
PROPOSAL was CONVEYED TO PRESIDENT KoRUTURK By FoREInN MINISTER
mACovEscu WHO VISITED ANKARA UNEYPFCTEOLY yESTFRDAY "WHALE
OF PRESIoENT CEAuSFSCU4 MR, HAcnYESCu MAO ALSO oiscussE0
THIS ISsDE IN ATHENS LAST WEEK.
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