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There is widespread fear that the Khmer Rouge, which from 1975 to 1978 sent at least a million Cambodians to their death as it tried to turn the country into a primitive agrarian commune, could fight its way back to power...
Almost all delegates at the conference reviled the Khmer Rouge, which was routed in a Vietnamese invasion in early 1979 after its fighters killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in a revolution to reform the country into an agrarian commune...
Bruce Wilcox, president of the Institute for Sustainable Development, an environmental-research organization based in Palo Alto, Calif., declared that solutions to the population challenge will demand "fundamental changes in society." Ingrained cultural attitudes that promote high birthrates will have to be challenged. Many families in poor agrarian societies, for example, see children as a source of labor and a hedge against poverty in old age. People need to be taught that with lower infant mortality, fewer offspring can provide the same measure of security. In some societies, numerous progeny are viewed as symbols of virility. In Kenya's Nyanza...
Other undemocratic soundings emanated from Managua. After learning that Ortega planned to ask the Supreme Court to step down, three of the seven members resigned last week, citing the government's failure to abide by the tribunal's rulings. They found particularly galling a case in which Agrarian Reform Minister Jaime Wheelock was ordered to return a large farm to its former owner; he has not yet complied. After asking the rest of the members to resign, Ortega packed the court with his supporters. A national dialogue also collapsed last week after 14 opposition parties walked out, charging that...
...made it clear that she would reopen the paper on her terms, not the Sandinistas'. She said she recently received an unexpected visit from Ortega. His message: La Prensa could resume publication. Her response: "I'll never go to that censorship office again." Ortega agreed. A subsequent visit by Agrarian Reform Minister Jaime Wheelock Roman, however, indicated that the Sandinistas were trying to back away from that pledge. She held tough, warning, "My paper will be published without censorship or not at all." Wheelock relented...