Word: huns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Enterprise (Monthly Review Press; $8.95), sums up this school of scandalized thought: "It's almost obscene to celebrate Columbus because it's an unmitigated record of horror. We don't have to celebrate a man who was really -- from an Indian point of view -- worse than Attila the Hun...
...makes clear, Columbus was not the gem of the ocean, the flawless hero of so many earlier hagiographies. But was the historic figure whose name was adopted by a South American republic, the District of Columbia and countless other places and entities, really worse than Hitler or Attila the Hun? What in the New World is going on around here...
...genocidal regime during the 1970s, has not been seen in public for about 10 years. Last week, however, the Asian Wall Street Journal reported that he was lurking in the background when Cambodian peace talks were held in Thailand in June. While negotiations with the Vietnam-backed government of Hun Sen were under way, the ex-dictator reportedly instructed the guerrillas from a secret location nearby. He is said to have acceded to government demands to designate Phnom Penh as the seat of the four-party Supreme National Council, consisting of the Khmer Rouge, the Hun Sen faction...
Only a few months ago, Pol Pot's presence anywhere near such a conference might have set back the peace process by provoking objections from Hun Sen, whose government has condemned him and seven others to death. The subdued reaction to the news seemed to confirm that with warming relations between Vietnam and China, there is real momentum in the drive to settle the 12-year- old conflict...
Peace in Cambodia has proved to be about as elusive as the sight of John Sununu on the shuttle. But last week brought progress toward a settlement of the 12-year-old civil war. The Vietnam-supported government of Prime Minister Hun Sen and three rival resistance groups -- the communist Khmer Rouge, the noncommunist followers of former Prime Minister Son Sann, and the disciples of former head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk -- accepted an unconditional cease-fire and a cessation of foreign-arms supplies. At Sihanouk's prodding, the transitional 12-member Supreme National Council, made up of representatives...