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Venturing into a quasi-war zone such as Cambodia is a traveler's gamble. A group of Mexican tourists recently spotted in the lobby of Phnom Penh's sole luxury hotel were snapping pictures of a wooden model of Angkor Wat, the country's famous 9th century temple complex -- as close as they would get to the real thing. Just days before, Khmer Rouge guerrillas had attacked Siem Reap, the city next to the ruins, and the group's guide refused to go near the place. The Mexicans were forced to content themselves with Phnom Penh -- a city whose attractions...
...fate of American POWS AND MIAS. In Vietnam, since January 1992, there have been eight joint field searches and 40 crash- or grave-site excavations; also, 422 cases from files and 92 live sightings were checked out. Vietnam and the U.S. have been making searches together in Laos and Cambodia as well; there have been a total of roughly 170 investigations of various types in the former country and 110 in the latter. The high numbers seem to indicate that Vietnam -- recently, at least -- has been very cooperative in helping with POW/MIAs. This may make a difference as Washington decides...
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...fact is that post-cold war, as pre-cold war, the same old rule applies: To do good, you often have to do bad. Sometimes you do indeed have to destroy the village in order to save it. How much better off Cambodia, for example, would have been had the U.S. prevailed in its Indochina campaign and the communists never come to power...
...other illusion to die in Somalia has to do with the United Nations. The U.N. has become the all-purpose ambulance service for bleeding countries. From Cambodia to Bosnia, blue hats have been sent not only to observe an already existing peace as in cold war days but also to bring peace where peace does not yet exist. In Somalia, to force peace...