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EVERY FEW YEARS or so, images of the horrible story of modern Cambodia seep into Western conciousness, only to give way after a while to the ongoing concerns of the day. But for the people of Cambodia, the nightmare is never-ending. First there was the murderous U.S. "sideshow" to the Vietnam War that took the form of B-52 raids on innocent civilians in the early 1970s. When the U.S. left Indochina in 1975, the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot took over and instituted a bloodbath in the name of one of the most insane ideologies to come...
...around the world a new outbreak of battles shows that the anguish so brilliantly depicted by the movie's makers continues to haunt Cambodia. This winter, as they have in each "dry season" since they invaded the country six years ago, the Vietnamese have launched an offensive aimed at wiping out the various Khmer rebel groups that continue to resist the puppet government they installed. The fighting was reported to have been particularly bloody this time, as the Vietnamese destroyed one of the rebels' main bases and pursued the insurgents over the border into Thailand...
...Chinese, who ought to be persuaded to drop their support of the Khmer Rouge, a product of their long-standing, virulent hatred of the Vietnamese. Such a move could lead to a new effort at rapprochement with the Vietnamese. They are being bled white by their costly occupation of Cambodia and would likely welcome the chance, on the right terms, to loosen the stranglehold presented by the increasing Soviet military presense in their country. The first step in this diplomatic offensive could be a move to drop recognition at the United Nations for the resistance forces, until they drop...
...could to encourage the Cambodian peoples' self-determination. As the bombs continue to fly in that country, and as the story of Dith Pran is recounted on movie screens across the country, that does not seem like too much to ask. Will it take another calamity to force Cambodia into our conciousness once again...
...managed to create a whole movie, but two separate ones. The first movie is the better one; it ends when Pran is forced to leave the French embassy. The second movie posed a critical formal problem to its makers: how to balance Pran's efforts to get out of Cambodia with Schanberg's campaign to find...