Word: cambodian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PARIS--Bitter accusations against the Khmer Rouge dominated Cambodian peace talks yesterday, with Vietnam calling the communist group "the most barbarous regime ever known" and demanding it be destroyed like the Nazis...
...mujahedin, the contras and the Cambodian guerrillas are all foot soldiers of an American policy whose architect has left office -- the Reagan Doctrine. To punish Leonid Brezhnev for fomenting trouble in the Third World back in the 1970s, Ronald Reagan launched a global counteroffensive in the 1980s. By helping to arm virtually any group aiming to topple one of the Kremlin's clients, Reagan gave new force to the old U.S. strategy of "containing" Soviet expansionism...
Asian and Western nations alike are coping with the crush by packing refugees into overcrowded detention centers and camps. Upwards of 14,000 are warehoused in Hong Kong's three "closed centers," the detention areas for those boat people recognized as potentially legitimate refugees. In Thailand . about 300,000 Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese refugees are held behind barbed wire, subsisting on meager rations; some have lived this way for ten years. Detention centers at Britain's Heathrow and Gatwick airports shelter some arrivals for as long as a year. In Miami up to 700 refugees, mostly Haitians, have at times...
...pronounced Mee-ahn-ma), the name the Burmese, oops, the Myanmans, have always preferred. In April Cambodia, which since 1976 had been known as Kampuchea, became Cambodia again. That was the fifth time in the past 20 years that the country has changed its name. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian resistance leader who is notorious for his own shifting stance on his country, has at least found a way to keep up with its changing names. When he speaks English, he calls the country Cambodia. When he speaks Khmer, he calls it Kampuchea. When he speaks French, he refers...
...must craft a political settlement that will satisfy not only the warring Cambodian factions but also their foreign sponsors: the Soviet Union and Viet Nam on one side, China and the U.S. on the other. While Hun Sen made a number of gestures toward the Prince, he still refused to allow the Khmer Rouge into the new government before elections; Sihanouk insisted it must be tried. Officially, the U.S. backs a pre-election four-party coalition that would include the Khmer Rouge, though no one wants to see them back in control...