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...degrees shift came as a shock, it should have been no real surprise. U.S. support of the bloodstained Khmer Rouge -- however grudging -- had long looked too contradictory and too immoral to sustain. The Bush Administration's strategy has three goals: securing the withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia, preventing the Khmer Rouge's return to power, and holding free elections to seat a new government...
...decision resulted primarily from the Administration's belated recognition of battlefield realities in Cambodia and political realities on Capitol Hill. Over the past six months, the Khmer Rouge forces, an estimated 30,000 strong, have been pursuing a rural-based strategy similar to the one that enabled them to encircle and take the capital city of Phnom Penh in 1975. While the Khmer Rouge are stronger militarily than at any other time since they were chased from power by Vietnam 11 years ago, some well-informed analysts do not believe the gains made during this rainy season represent a dramatic...
Battle carries its own excitements, and children are as susceptible to those fevers as adults. Arn Chorn was ten when he was sent to Wat Aik, a Buddhist temple in Cambodia converted into a concentration camp by the Khmer Rouge. He spent two years there, a witness to daily butcheries, and he endured them in a state of numbness. When Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978, he was sent to fight with the Khmer Rouge army. It was a new kind of terror, but he quickly got used to life on patrol in swampy jungles. Frightened the first time he fired...
Romano confronted such contradictions again in the Boston tenements that house relocated refugee families from Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos, Families crowding 10 people into one apartment, and children with no place to study, responsible for chores of cooking and caring for younger siblings, defied his expectations...
...hair, hide her wrinkles or wear clothes no grandchild would dare drool on. Instead the First Lady must be feeling a little like Henry Kissinger, who attracted protests nearly every time he was invited to a college campus. But it's not the secret bombing of Cambodia that has a quarter of the senior class at Wellesley College objecting to the First Lady as speaker at this year's graduation. It is simply that she is married to George Bush and has no career of her own. "To honor Barbara Bush as a commencement speaker is to honor a woman...