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...Does the situation in Cambodia interfere with the normalization of relations between Vietnam...
...disabled Vietnamese soldiers are only a small echo of the sometimes hopeful but often disenchanted and uncertain views voiced everywhere in Vietnam. Fifteen years after the fighting ended on April 30, 1975, the country remains impoverished and embittered. While it has been at peace since most Vietnamese troops left Cambodia last September, there is great discontent over living conditions and an annual per capita income of less than $200, far below that of South Vietnam in 1975. Last year 75,000 boat people set sail for the refugee camps of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, attempting to escape...
...moves toward a market economy have been hobbled by Vietnam's economic and diplomatic isolation. Hanoi and Washington have long disagreed on how to restore relations, and the U.S. strengthened a 1975 trade embargo following Vietnam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia. Other industrial countries, including Japan, are waiting for a U.S. lead before committing themselves to major trade and investment. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union has served notice that it will drastically curtail the aid it has provided in the past, especially fertilizers, structural steel and critical oil supplies...
That was 1971. Last month Cloud, 53, now Washington bureau chief, returned to Cambodia for the first time in 18 years. He sought out old friends and sources, including the jovial, rotund chef who used to serve a legendary souffle Grand Marnier in Phnom Penh's Cafe de Paris. Today the Cambodian capital's French restaurants are gone, but the chef survived the brutal Khmer Rouge years and has opened a far more modest Cambodian eatery where he still whips up a souffle. Says Cloud: "While it's only a pale imitation of the one he used to make...
Such perseverance is the theme of Cloud's account of Hout Seng, TIME's driver in Phnom Penh during the war. After an arduous escape from Cambodia, Seng and some of his family were confined in refugee camps in Thailand. With TIME's help, they were eventually able to settle in Washington, where Seng's son Neang, 28, is a photographer. He accompanied Cloud on his recent journey...