Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nixon announces an invasion of Cambodia and a "stepping...
...invasion of Cambodia and the killing of four students at Kent State brought the street-fighters into action. Harvard Square stores were looted, the police riot squads poured into the Square, and the tear gas drifted as high as the Lowell House belltower...
...reducing profoundly our nuclear arsenals. The logic of confrontation and the psychology of hostility and distrust have been banished from our relations. This partnership has enabled us to bring about real changes in the solution of the most complex international issues such as the Middle East, Angola and Cambodia...
...parade route to prosperity, though, has taken a few detours. In April 1975, party leader Le Duan promised a television and a refrigerator in every home within 10 years. Instead, there followed what Vietnamese call "the 10 bad years," during which orthodox communist policies and a costly occupation of Cambodia made Vietnam one of the world's poorest countries. In 1986 Nguyen Van Linh, a southerner, took over with a call for gradual reform. In 1989, as communism seemed to be collapsing elsewhere in the world, Vietnam flung open its doors to foreign investment. The economy has been growing...
...this installation, Spero has chosen five images from the Sackler's ancient and Asian collections to "mingle" with images from her own collection. The images include dancing apsaras from Cambodia and China, an aphrodite holding a dove from 450 B.C. and a statuette of a hip-popotamus goddess from the 9th century...