Word: huns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real jubilation for two countries that have battled one enemy or another, Cambodia for the past 20 years, Viet Nam for more than twice as long. In Cambodia three guerrilla armies, not least the brutal Khmer Rouge, are spoiling to settle their differences with the Hanoi-approved government of Hun Sen. The departure of the Vietnamese promises only the renewal of civil strife as these groups struggle for dominance...
...exhausted nations, Cambodia faces the more dire future. A 19- nation conference convened in Paris to hammer out a settlement between the Cambodian government and the tripartite resistance collapsed in August over the fate of the Khmer Rouge. Hun Sen refused to consider any power-sharing arrangement with the guerrillas who had turned Cambodia into a charnel house, and Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the country's former ruler and the titular head of the resistance, refused to come into a government without them. The combatants and their assorted international sponsors had hoped to reach agreement before the Vietnamese pullout. Now, with...
Phnom Penh's Premier Hun Sen says he also hopes the pullout will persuade China and Thailand to stop aiding the three guerrilla groups...
...After the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops the war will continue," Hun Sen told reporters Sunday. "As to the scope of the war, we think it will depend on foreign countries," he said...
...time when best-selling management-advice books tell corporate leaders how to behave like Attila the Hun, the philosophy at Herman Miller, Inc., is more closely attuned to the gentle precepts of St. Francis of Assisi. As described by chairman Max De Pree, 64, in Leadership Is an Art (Doubleday; $17.95), modern corporations should be communities, not battlefields. At their heart lie "covenants" between executives and employees that rest on "shared commitment to ideas, to issues, to values, to goals, and to management processes. Words such as love, warmth, personal chemistry are certainly pertinent...