Word: chakrapong
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Civil war was averted in Cambodia when seven provinces that had tried to secede reversed course. The rebels' leader, Prince Norodom Chakrapong, a Deputy Premier in the pro-Vietnamese government and the son of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the head of state, had declared the provinces independent to protest the governing party's loss in last month's elections to a party headed by Chakrapong's brother. But Chakrapong decided to go along with a plan for both parties to share power in an interim government...
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