Word: cambodias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revolutionaries promise to restore democratic rights, to reinstate traditional practices, including the Buddhist religion, and to move Cambodia toward "peace, freedom, nonalignment and socialism," the agency added...
...ousted regime has sent Sihanouk to the United Nations to charge Vietnam with aggression against Cambodia...
Deposed Premier Pol Pot, who fled the capital on Sunday, is trying to organize a line of resistance near Siem Reap in north-western Cambodia, reliable analysts reported. The rebel news agency said revolutionary forces control that area, about 320 miles northwest of Phnom Penh...
...have been in a desperate attempt to gain international support against such a Vietnamese assault that Cambodia last week embarked on its oddest scheme yet to end its self-imposed isolation: a twice-weekly six-hour tourist excursion from Bangkok to the exquisite Cambodian temple complex of Angkor Wat, 140 miles northwest of Phnom-Penh. The round trip, arranged in Bangkok by former Thai Foreign Minister Chatichai Choonhavan, costs an unproletarian $225. On the inaugural flight last week was TIME's Hong Kong correspondent, David DeVoss, who reported that "at first security was so tight, visitors spent most...
...tourists will probably keep coming, and the Cambodians may partly achieve their objective, which is only incidentally to gain much needed foreign exchange. As So Hong, Cambodia's Secretary-General of the Foreign Ministry, said when he greeted the first nervous tourists: "We hope that in opening ourselves to the world, we will improve our image. We have many erroneous impressions to correct." And a few valid ones to live down...