Word: chau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This time the opposition was not even as strong as that offered by the faltering South Vietnamese army in 1975. From Chau Phu on the Vietnamese side of the border, Giap's artillery pumped shells into Cambodian territory to disperse the Khmer Rouge. Then Giap's troops rolled across under air support from captured American A-37 twin jets...
...tens of thousands of Cambodians who fled the new Phnom-Penh regime. Viet Nam's Quang Due province has been repeatedly attacked by the Khmer Rouge, while Hanoi's forces have made counterthrusts into Cambodia's Svay Rieng. Neither government seems to have clear control of Chau Doc province...
...public, possibly because of relief and gratitude that the war is finally over. That reservoir of good will could quickly dry up, however, if the new rulers launch widespread reprisals or move quickly to create a harsh, regimented state. Addressing himself to these potential pitfalls, Khmer Rouge Politburo Member Chau Seng assured a Paris press conference last week that while "there will be some trials in Phnom-Penh, we will judge in a humane way." The new regime will in turn be judged-by its own citizens and by the rest of the world-on the basis of just...
...Rouge forces closed in on Phnom-Penh last week, 17 or so foreign journalists passed up the last evacuation flight, electing instead to cover the fall of the capital. It was a perilous decision. There were reports that Khmer Rouge troops had vowed to kill any Americans they found; Chau Seng, a Khmer Rouge Politburo member in Paris, offered only an opaque promise that once the city was taken "competent authorities will examine [the journalists'] cases" before deciding their fate...
...which was wrapped in Argentina's blue and white flag, were his general's cap and saber. Men and women lining the five-mile route burst into tears. Some tossed flowers at the coffin; others simply waved their handkerchiefs. There were plaintive cries of "Adiós, mi general" and "Chau, viejo," meaning, affectionately, "Goodbye...