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...bizarre and bloody world of Southern California gang life, armed and alienated children are guerrilla warriors. Cambodian gangs battling Hispanic gangs is but the newest infection. Ira Reiner, district attorney for Los Angeles County (pop. 8,776,000), estimates that 130,000 gang members operate in his jurisdiction alone. They range from subteen "peewees" to as many as 13,000 hard-core killers. Last year in the county the gangs accounted for 18,059 violent felonies and 690 deaths. Nearly every ethnic group is represented in the mayhem: the highly publicized black Bloods and Crips; multigenerational Hispanic groups that account...
...peace treaty took two years to work out, but foreign ministers of 18 countries and representatives from four Cambodian political factions finally signed it in Paris last week. The accord is supposed to lead to a permanent cease-fire in the civil war, demobilization, repatriation of 350,000 refugees, and United Nations-supervised elections by early...
...signing of the accord, however, produced one glimmer of hope. With the Cambodian issue settled for the moment, the U.S. announced that it is ready to seek normal relations with Vietnam. That could lead to an infusion of aid and investment dollars, which would breathe new life into Hanoi's stagnant economy and might even stem the crushing flow of Vietnamese boat people to foreign shores...
...head of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal regime during the 1970s, has not been seen in public for about 10 years. Last week, however, the Asian Wall Street Journal reported that he was lurking in the background when Cambodian peace talks were held in Thailand in June. While negotiations with the Vietnam-backed government of Hun Sen were under way, the ex-dictator reportedly instructed the guerrillas from a secret location nearby. He is said to have acceded to government demands to designate Phnom Penh as the seat of the four-party Supreme National Council, consisting of the Khmer Rouge...
...addition, would like to see how many political concessions it can squeeze out of Moscow -- on subjects ranging from help in settling the Cambodian civil war to final agreement on arms-control treaties -- before coming up with an aid package. Washington also is talking in effect of trying to help Gorbachev sell economic overhaul by expanding contacts with Soviet hard-liners and trying to persuade them not to see reform as a threat...