Word: cambodian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compiled a good list of subjects, including Bart the gas pumper, Yi the Cambodian high school student at the bus stop and "Jhon" the construction worker. It made our jaunt sound more like a trip around Mr. Roger's Neighborhood than interviewing...
...number of exit visas it will grant its citizens this year. Washington has long prodded Moscow for just such an opening to emigres. To accommodate the new Soviet arrivals, the Reagan Administration last year transferred 7,000 slots previously reserved for Asian immigrants to Soviet refugees, outraging advocates for Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants...
...with the state offering to pay 90% of the costs, the city board of aldermen refuses to spend local funds for a badly needed high school and elementary school. Language and cultural obstacles compound the system's problems: over half of the 3,300 students speak Spanish or Cambodian at home. Faced with sagging test scores and a 17% annual dropout rate, many parents and local leaders seem willing to try anything. "What do we have to lose?" asks school committee chairman Bruce Robinson...
Washington State fisheries report finding tumors in the livers of English sole, which dwell on sediment. Posted signs warn, BOTTOMFISH, CRAB AND SHELLFISH MAY BE UNSAFE TO EAT DUE TO POLLUTION. Lest anyone fail to get the message, the caution is printed in seven languages: English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Chinese and Korean...
...Phnom Penh and along the boulevard leading to Pochentong airport. As marching music blared, senior Vietnamese officers, led by Lieut. General Le Ngoc Hien, drove past the Kampuchean throngs in Soviet-made jeeps, followed by buses carrying other officers and enlisted men. At the airport, a team of Cambodian classical dancers showered fragrant white flowers on the departing officers and soldiers, who boarded planes and helicopters bound for Ho Chi Minh City. After almost ten years in Kampuchea, the Vietnamese army was officially going home...