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...consider Paris, which will soon be several driving hours closer to London as work on a tunnel under the English Channel forges ahead. The French capital is fast becoming a major diplomatic crossroads, a host to economic summits, peace negotiations on Cambodia and talks to limit the spread of chemical weapons. In Spain, which will be host to both the Summer Olympics and World's Fair in 1992, a vibrant mood of enterprise and enthusiasm mirrors the distant days of another century, when Spanish ships braved the unknown to discover new lands and Christopher Columbus reached the Americas. Even Italy...
...nothing else, the month-long international conference in Paris dramatizes the importance and complexity of events in Cambodia. After more than ten years of occupation, Vietnamese troops are due to pull out next month. At issue in Paris is what happens next -- a new round of civil war or a coalition government? And should a coalition include the Khmer Rouge, the murderous ultra-Maoists whom the Vietnamese drove into the jungle...
...question of whether the Khmer Rouge are granted government portfolios and political legitimacy along with their military strength. Attending the Paris conference last week, Secretary of State James Baker said, "The United States strongly believes that the Khmer Rouge should play no role in Cambodia's future." That statement was an improvement on one he made in April, when he accepted the inclusion of the Khmer Rouge in a coalition as "a fact of life." Last week he went on to say that American support for a new Cambodian government "will directly and inversely depend on the extent of Khmer...
...mere fact that the foreign ministers of some 20 countries, including the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., are gathered in Paris this week to try to end ten years of war in Cambodia constitutes something of a breakthrough. Only a few days before the conference opened, a parley among the four warring Cambodian factions broke down just hours after it began. The talks were resumed by the factions -- the country's Vietnamese-backed government, represented by Prime Minister Hun Sen, and a resistance coalition that includes two non-Communist groups under Prince Norodom Sihanouk andnationalist leader Son Sann, as well...
...verbal sparring in France heated up, so did the fighting in Cambodia. Vietnamese artillery units stepped up shelling of rebel positions along the Thai border. Viet Nam's objective: to make it harder for opposition troops to attack the Phnom Penh regime after Hanoi pulls out its forces in September...