Word: angkor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's 8 million people may have been slaughtered. He apparently escaped the fast-moving Vietnamese divisions, which were accompanied by 18,000 dissident Cambodian Communists, and was reported to be leading his army's last division near Siem Reap and the ancient temples of Angkor...
...have been in a desperate attempt to gain international support against such a Vietnamese assault that Cambodia last week embarked on its oddest scheme yet to end its self-imposed isolation: a twice-weekly six-hour tourist excursion from Bangkok to the exquisite Cambodian temple complex of Angkor Wat, 140 miles northwest of Phnom-Penh. The round trip, arranged in Bangkok by former Thai Foreign Minister Chatichai Choonhavan, costs an unproletarian $225. On the inaugural flight last week was TIME's Hong Kong correspondent, David DeVoss, who reported that "at first security was so tight, visitors spent most...
...high-level Chinese delegation to Cambodia because of her pervasive prestige. Her mission was to persuade Premier Pol Pot to negotiate a settlement with Hanoi, but she failed. Though received with due pomp in Phnom-Penh, she was soon whisked out to view the 12th century ruins at Angkor Wat and otherwise kept occupied. After four days she reportedly cut short her visit and went home. Though her hosts may not have been paying much attention to her, she had obviously been listening to them. Back in Peking, she told French Premier Barre that China regarded Cambodia as a victim...
When the Peking-based ambassador of a Middle Eastern country received word that he would be allowed to visit Cambodia, he was delighted. After all, he could observe firsthand a new socialist society in the making. He could take his family on sightseeing excursions to the temple ruins of Angkor Wat. But the ambassador had not reckoned with the xenophobia of the fanatical rulers of Democratic Kampuchea, as Cambodia is called...
...Caroline's and John Kennedy Jr.'s "children-and-study room," the remodeled library of her Fifth Avenue Manhattan apartment. On the study table were some of Jackie's treasures: some black coral she found while diving near Yucatan, a mushroom on a twig from Angkor Wat, two bronze Egyptian cats and, perhaps revealingly, a string of blue Greek worry beads...