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...final weeks of the campaign, how to deal with the Khmer Rouge has become the defining issue. Pol Pot's forces say they will not peaceably accept victory by "the Vietnamese aggressors and their puppets." Hun Sen's party has promised to wage an all-out war to eradicate the guerrillas. FUNCINPEC, the opposition party founded by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the country's interim head of state, has pledged to bring them into a coalition government. Sihanouk's eldest son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, argues that with a government dedicated to expelling the Vietnamese and establishing social justice, the Khmer Rouge...
...President launched an all-out hard sell for his program last week with his TV appearance and meetings with business executives and legislators. The pace will pick up sharply this week: immediately after the speech to Congress, Cabinet members will fan out to radio and TV shows to plug the program, and some will be dispatched to their home state to begin grass-roots lobbying...
...while the women lost 63-54, but both squads saw the meet more as an opportunity to test the waters than as a chance to give their all-out best. Coming months before the bulk of the season, the competition just doesn't mean that much...
...accomplishments secure. For months there have been warnings of a showdown between reformists and reactionaries. Russians and Russia watchers alike talk about "the December scenario." The opening act will take place during the Congress of People's Deputies that begins this week. Yeltsin's opponents are expected to launch an all-out offensive to restrict his personal authority, reverse his main policies and remove his key ministers. In the scarier versions of the scenario, the maneuvers against the Russian government could be a prelude to a parliamentary upheaval or even a putsch...
...REAL ISSUE. The battle is only incidentally about oilseeds. "At stake," says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, "is the credibility of the international trading system." At risk too is the recession-ravaged world economy: an all-out trade war would be tantamount to mutually assured economic destruction...