Word: cambodians
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Angkor Wat. Cambodia's famous temple and national treasure, has been severely damaged by a Cambodian army artillery barrage, authoritative sources disclosed yesterday...
...Phnom-Penh, the capital, has grown by 400,000, but the city has absorbed them gracefully. "The refugee problem hasn't surfaced yet," says a Western diplomat. "Give it another year." Moreover, since far less land is owned by absentee landlords than in Viet Nam, the average Cambodian peasant is less apt to leave it in moments of stress, and more anxious to return to it when the fighting eases. Cambodia's most serious refugee problem has been the plight of the ethnic Vietnamese, who became the target of war-inflamed hatred last year. About 200,000 have...
Like any good reporter, U.P.I. Correspondent Catherine M. Webb wanted to phone in the news. Emergingfrom the jungle along Cambodia's embattled Highway 4, the pretty New Zealander and five companions flagged down a Cambodian military vehicle and rode to a town 25 miles southwest of Phnom-Penh. There, Kate Webb-missing for 24 days and widely presumed dead -rang up U.P.I.'s office in the capital and told her startled and relieved colleagues that she was "alive and well...
...April 7, Kate, a Japanese cameraman, a Cambodian photographer and three Cambodian assistants vanished while covering some fierce fighting on Highway 4. Nine days later, Cambodian troops in the area found the bullet-torn and decomposing body of a Caucasian woman in a shallow grave; their discovery seemed to confirm fears that Kate had become the tenth journalist to die in Cambodia since the war spread there last spring (TIME...
Cornered the day after a Cambodian position they were visiting had been overrun, Webb and her companions were held by the Communists for three weeks in hideouts in the Elephant mountains southwest of Phnom-Penh. On the whole, she reported, the Communists "treated us well." No one knows just why she was freed. No one may ever know the identity of the woman in the shallow grave. Following usual Cambodian army practice, the body was cremated on the spot...