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Michael Mao Dance Company. Twelve-member company presents the Boston premiere of "Motion Without View," an abstract piece inspired by the plight of more than 100 Cambodian women who suffer from traumatic blindness, set to a percussive score by Michael Raye. Oct. 2, 8 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, 84 Mass Ave. $7.50 for students. Call 491-3133 for more information...
PHNOM PENH -- The Thai military is secretly supporting the Cambodian KHMER ROUGE, the party responsible for the massacre of more than 1 million Cambodians when it ran the country during the 1970s. Officials with the United Nations Transitional authority in Cambodia say 400 Khmer Rouge guerrillas, fleeing an offensive by the Cambodian army, were evacuated by Thai army trucks and driven through Thai territory to a Khmer Rouge base. UNTAC officials wanted to announce their discovery but were overruled by officials at the U.N. headquarters in New York City who didn't want an open dispute with Thailand...
...NANDA CHAMROEUN, A CAMBODIAN-BORN U.S. CITIZEN WHO RETURNED TO CAMBODIA TO RUN AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
After threatening to sabotage U.N.-sponsored Cambodian elections, the Khmer Rouge allowed the vote to proceed unimpeded -- and even bused people to the polls. The guerrillas may have reasoned that the election was the best way to dispose of their enemies, the country's pro-Vietnamese ruling party. Pressure from their longtime sponsors, the Chinese, may also have had a pacifying effect...
Western analysts expect that no party will dominate the election. Rather, the probable outcome is a "Cambodian solution," as a senior U.N. official put it, in which an uneasy coalition is formed under the mercurial Prince Sihanouk. The Khmer Rouge would not be invited to participate in the new government, but neither would the government wage war on the guerrillas. Pol Pot's relentless hold on Cambodia, alas, is likely to continue...