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...South Vietnam, a Viet Cong offensive along the Cambodian border marks the end of a two-month lull in fighting and delays President Nixon's decision on further U.S. troop withdrawals...
...area's most acclaimed restaurant is the The Elephant Walk, serving traditional French and Cambodian cuisine to an eclectic and nonnative crowd. Masters expresses anger at a comment she heard about the restaurant: "Finally there's a place to go in Union Square,"--a comment that demonstrates the gap between those who seek the cosmpolitan and those who are sick...
Tarsy Poulios, 67, grew up on the third floor of a crowded cold-water tenement around the corner from 29 Bowers Street, where he lives today. When Poulios was a child, his neighbors were predominantly Irish and French Canadian. Now a Cambodian family lives on one side of his turquoise-shingled house, a Lebanese family on the other. His father, who spoke only a few words of English, worked for three decades as a spinner in the Merrimack textile mill. Poulios, a city mailman for 34 years, has served six years on the city council. Today he is Lowell...
...says. "Civil administration was an area in which the U.N. had no experience." The peacekeepers were supposed to create a neutral political environment for elections. U.N. officials acknowledged that no adequate control over civil administration was ever established. Materiel was routinely stolen from the airport before being logged in. Cambodian cleaning women stripped the mission of at least 10 computers before they were caught. The wait for official supplies of pens and paper drove desperate staff members to the local market. "When we start up in a new place, everything is wrong," says Denis Beissel, acting director...
Countries that contribute troops insist on commanding them from afar. Soldiers from Bulgaria, a hapless lot recruited through local newspaper ads, scandalized the Cambodian provinces with their drinking and womanizing, but the U.N. could not discipline them. A U.N. task force has been created to investigate alleged black marketeering by peacekeepers, as well as charges that blue helmets regularly visited a Serb-run brothel outside Sarajevo whose "prostitutes" were in fact Muslim and Croat prisoners...