Word: cambodian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambodian problem serves only as a pretext. The greatest mistake of the U.S. is not the Vietnam War. It is this strategy of using Vietnam as a pawn in the relationship between China and the U.S. It would be much better if the U.S. considered Vietnam in terms of its intrinsic value...
Survivors of a genocidal war, Cambodians carry traumatic psychological burdens. Sometimes it seems as if the war has quite literally followed them across the sea. In the municipal cemetery in Stockton, Calif., a few graves are marked by odd, poignant gifts: plastic dolls, balloons, soft-drink cans, plates of fruit, piles of pennies. They are the offerings of bereaved Cambodian parents to the spirits of four children who were murdered in last year's rampage by a mentally deranged drifter at the city's Cleveland elementary school. Though Stockton police maintain that the episode was not racially motivated, the Indochinese...
Ironically, even as Butterfield perpetuates this stereotypical view of Asian-Americans, he recognizes the falsehood of the model minority myth. The author acknowledges that not all Asian-Americans are academically stellar, pointing to the hardships suffered by many Hmong and Cambodian refugees...
...have no trouble getting voters' attention. Silber can ignite a media fire storm as easily as he can quote Shakespeare. By day nine of his campaign, he had labeled the Bay State "a welfare magnet"; referred to the city of Lowell, which has a large Asian population, as "the Cambodian capital of America"; and wondered out loud why Massachusetts has "suddenly become so popular for people who are accustomed to living in the tropical climate." In a testy press conference, Silber later denied charges of racism and accused the media of taking his comments out of context. The next...
...that it has withdrawn most of its air forces from the military base at Viet Nam's Cam Ranh Bay. The move appeared to be aimed at cutting costs, pressuring the U.S. to reduce its military presence in the Pacific and, significant for Cambodia, improving relations with Beijing. The Cambodian conflict has in some ways been a proxy war between the Soviets, who back Hun Sen, and the Chinese, who support the resistance...