Word: kampucheans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moscow insisted upon describing the invaders as "the revolutionary armed forces" of the Kampuchean National United Front for National Salvation (KNUFNS), a band of Cambodian rebels rounded up by Hanoi last month. Few observers were misled by this disguise, however, KNUFNS is little more than an organizational fig leaf designed to conceal an attempt to unseat the virulently anti-Vietnamese Cambodian government. Among KNUFNS' promises: to re-establish banks and private ownership, restore family life and abolish "compulsory marriage." Still, broadcasting such attractive ideas may have little influence on Cambodia's heavily supervised and rusticated population: there...
...people with degrees in Asian studies. If only Harvard fundraisers had the diplomatic skills of Fletcher fundraisers, might we not similarly be blessed with a John Vorster Chair of Race Relations, a Kim Il Sung Chair of International Peace, or a Pol Pot Professorship of Population Policy and Kampuchean History? Len Leverson...