There was no issue of the paper on this date on account of the Pakistan Day holiday. The excerpt below is taken from the previous day`s edition.ISLAMABAD: Cambodian Foreign Minister Sarin Chhak called on Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Rawalpindi this evening [March 22] and delivered a personal message from Head of State and President of the National Front of Cambodia, Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Mr Chhak arrived ... on a three-day goodwill visit of Pakistan. ... The Cambodian Foreign Minister remained with the Prime Minister for some time. ... On arrival here, he said ... that his Government and people were `deeply grateful` to the Government and people of Pakistan for their `valuable support to our just struggle for national liberation`. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Washington,] the Ambassador of the Lol Non administration to the [US] said ...

his administration would not oppose a return to power by ... Prince Norodom Sihanouk `if this would bring peace to the country`. ...

Asked if the administration was likely to surrender if it failed to receive any further US aid, he replied: `May be ... Yes, it is almost certain.