Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sheehy, and that is an even bigger problem. Her effort to popularize a psychology of survival is hopelessly muddled by her need to dramatize herself. Sheehy, a middle-aged single mother and the companion of Magazine Editor Clay Felker, jets off to Thailand to write a story about Cambodian child refugees. There she meets Phat Mohm, 12, an orphaned survivor of Pol Pot's death marches and work camps. Arrangements are made to bring Mohm to the U.S., where she lives with Sheehy, learns to be an American and attends Gail's wedding to Clay...
There is a poignant story here, but Sheehy cannot tell it. Her banal prose and feeble attempts at social science reduce experience to jargon. Alternating her own trendy problems with accounts of Cambodian genocide seems bizarre, to say the least. An apt subtitle for this book might be The Lotus and the Narcissus...
Earlier yesterday, Weinberger toured the tense Thai-Cambodian border and got a rousing welcome from villagers who have suffered from border battles between Cambodian rebels and Vietnamese forces that occupy the neighboring country...
...year after his Oscar-winning portrayal of a news photographer's harrowing escape from the Communist Khmer Rouge in The Killing Fields, the physician turned movie star has returned to Southeast Asia to complete a European television documentary and a book. "I want to show the suffering of the Cambodian people," he explained after meeting Chen Ian, 12, whose parents were killed in a Vietnamese attack on their refugee camp. The latest rulers in Phnom-Penh, Viet Nam's puppet Heng Samrin government, are worse even than the Khmer Rouge in Ngor's view. "They kill all my people. They...
...Sociology concentrator also said that teaching Laotian, Cambodian, and Vietnamese children English will help her learn more about Asian cultures. Barton said she also wants to gauge Philippinos' response to "refugees in their midst...