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Civil war was averted in Cambodia when seven provinces that had tried to secede reversed course. The rebels' leader, Prince Norodom Chakrapong, a Deputy Premier in the pro-Vietnamese government and the son of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the head of state, had declared the provinces independent to protest the governing party's loss in last month's elections to a party headed by Chakrapong's brother. But Chakrapong decided to go along with a plan for both parties to share power in an interim government...
Even if the operation badly crippled Aidid's forces, it thrust the U.N. back into Somalia's chaos. It also underscored the immense difficulty of the U.N.'s new role -- not only in Somalia but in Yugoslavia and Cambodia -- in trying to make peace before the warring parties are ready...
...many of the U.N.'s recent undertakings can be called unalloyed successes: Cambodia is still locked in political rivalry; Somalia remains a violent, lawless land; Bosnia is shattered for good. Asked by the world to take over as Globo-cop, the U.N. has gone further than ever before, breaking its precedents and stretching its mandate to repair the ravages of war and internal breakdown. The role hasn't worked very well, in part because the U.N. lacks the money and men to do the job. But the main difficulty is with the job itself. The U.N. has been asked...
Dilemmas even more painful hobble the big U.N. efforts in Bosnia and Cambodia. In both cases the world body has stepped far out of its traditional role of monitoring a cease-fire agreed to by the parties...
...prostitution has occurred in other Russian and East European cities. In the ( Third World the numbers are also staggering: an estimated 800,000 underage prostitutes in Thailand, 400,000 in India, 250,000 in Brazil and 60,000 in the Philippines. The newest international sites for child prostitution: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, China and the Dominican Republic...