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Further inside, visitors encounter historical exhibits on such episodes as the Turkish slaughter of Armenians and the Khmer Rouge atrocities in Cambodia. Displays about the U.S. include a map locating active hate groups and a multiscreen show on the hardships of Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights campaigns. A time line shows that the Iroquois were condemned to reservations two years before the U.S. Constitution was ratified...
...DEMOCRACY BE BORN WHILE BULLETS ARE flying? Cambodia may find out May 23-25, the date set for U.N.-sponsored elections for a national assembly. The Vietnam-installed government and three guerrilla groups, including the Khmer Rouge, agreed to the timetable, but there was no guarantee that the warring factions would put aside their ethnic hatred long enough to vote. Both the government and the Khmer Rouge have been accused of killing off enemies in a series of massacres. According to U.N. peacekeepers, a Khmer Rouge soldier confessed that he and other guerrillas slaughtered a group of 15 Vietnamese living...
...Khmer Rouge's acceptance of the May election date seems meaningless, since the group still insists that it will not participate in the voting. Many observers believe the U.N., which is spending more than $2 billion to bring peace to Cambodia, will hold the elections regardless of the situation -- so that it can declare victory and leave...
...themes stand out in this lumpy but fast-reading unauthorized biography, which gets the record straight yet seems to miss the inner man. (Shawcross, a British writer perhaps best known for his savaging of Henry Kissinger's Cambodia policy in Sideshow, managed to interview his subject. Murdoch read the manuscript but refused to comment on it.) One is that Murdoch is a daring but occasionally imprudent gambler, usually with other people's money. In 1990 News faced a liquidity crisis caused by the recession, a huge drop in advertising revenues, and Murdoch's reliance on short-term loans...
...military intervention to provide protection for food distribution, even though the U.N. had received no official invitation. When the two sides in El Salvador's civil war could not agree on a land-distribution plan that was crucial to a peace accord, the U.N. proposed its own scheme. In Cambodia the U.N. has a broader -- and, many say, more trying -- charge than in any other operation it has mounted...