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Whatever the shape of an eventual accord, it will take years for Kampuchea to recover from its ordeal. Provincial centers like Kampot, a river town 70 miles south of Phnom Penh, seem half empty. The government says there are 20,000 people in Kampot province, which once had a population of 420,000. It is possible to stand on a main street now and not see a soul. The reduction of urban populations by the Khmer Rouge was so thorough that towns have been largely taken over by peasants and displaced persons. They squat in empty houses or in lean...
...accord delivers a blow to U.S. influence in the Arab world and highlights the Reagan Administration's losing fight to overcome the resistance of the powerful U.S. Jewish lobby to weapons sales to Arab countries. The last major U.S. deal with the Saudis was in 1981, when the Administration barely surmounted congressional opposition and sold Riyadh five AWACS radar- surveillance planes...
...Dukakis chose Lloyd M. Bentsen of Texas as his running mate last week, he harkened back to the presidential campaign of 1960 and proclaimed that the "Boston Austin" connection was back in the running. Dukakis, like every smart politician, is seeking to capitalize on the mythic stature that Americans accord President John F. Kennedy '40 by reminding voters of the successful Massachusetts-Texas combination that won the White House for the Democrats...
...high art, the more leached out will become the ethnic content of the work." Hence the peculiarly airless and circular way in which New York City defined itself from about 1965 on as the cultural caput mundi, pulling all talent into its gravitational field of orthodoxy, refusing to accord "seriousness" to provincials and barbarians...
While withholding their cooperation from investigators with the claim that a white-run system will not accord justice to blacks, the trio of advisers has manipulated the case into a long-running multimedia sensation. Last week the affair was the centerpiece for an extraordinary episode of TV's Phil Donahue show. The one-hour broadcast was shot on location in Brooklyn's Bethany Baptist Church, where Brawley's mother Glenda, 33, had ensconced herself to avoid arrest on a contempt-of-court charge resulting from her refusal to obey a grand-jury subpoena...