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...decade, the No. 1 American objective in Kampuchea has been to get the Vietnamese out. No. 2 has been to squeeze the Vietnamese-installed rulers out of a new coalition in Phnom Penh. Until recently, preventing the Khmer Rouge from butchering their way back into dominance has been a distant...
...desire and possibility. But it needed a system of images, and that is what Dali found through what he called his "critical-paranoiac" method. In essence, it meant looking at one thing and seeing another -- an extended version of the face seen in the fire. Heads turn into a distant city, a landscape resolves itself as a still life, inexplicable combinations are seen to lurk magically beneath the skin of the world...
...segregated dormitories ballooned into a political movement that nearly drove Charles de Gaulle from office. In Mexico, student demonstrations shortly before the opening of the Olympic Games were brutally suppressed. In Czechoslovakia during the spring, the Communist Party led by Alexander Dubcek undertook reforms that now seem a distant forerunner of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost -- efforts to humanize the socialist structure, to encourage greater individual discretion. Euphoria bloomed in the "Prague Spring," until Soviet and other Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into town in August and crushed the hope...
...from the Korean peninsula. The Roh government would have preferred to start discussions on less contentious topics, but went along with the Pyongyang proposal. Said Roh: "There are changes in the North that cannot be easily seen. I think we will have a summit meeting in the not too distant future...
...spectra of a supernova "it used to be photographic plates, but now we're using CCD's [Charge Couple Devise] that are the same that are in a home video camera." He says the CCD's are extremely sensitive to light and so are of immense use in detecting distant remnants...