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...side as long as food donations keep pouring in. Though individual agencies may continue to withdraw, aid workers note that short of stopping relief altogether, their hands are tied. Many recall Cambodia in the late 1970s, when foreign food assistance to refugees on the Thai border enabled the defeated Khmer Rouge to live and fight another day. Rwandans who have already suffered a holocaust now face a choice between starvation or the resumption...
...English. Lowell, Massachusetts, was a fading city of 19th century textile mills until 1985, when the Federal Government chose it as a resettlement site for Southeast Asian families. This year, aided by federal and state grants, Lowell spent $5.9 million on bilingual education; courses are offered in Spanish, Khmer, Lao, Portugese and Vietnamese. All communications between schools and parents are translated into five languages. At the Cary Reynolds elementary school in the Atlanta suburb of De Kalb County, Georgia, students from 25 foreign nations speak a medley of languages ranging from Mandarin to Farsi...
...Secret Thailand-Khmer Rouge Connection...
PHNOM PENH -- The Thai military is secretly supporting the Cambodian KHMER ROUGE, the party responsible for the massacre of more than 1 million Cambodians when it ran the country during the 1970s. Officials with the United Nations Transitional authority in Cambodia say 400 Khmer Rouge guerrillas, fleeing an offensive by the Cambodian army, were evacuated by Thai army trucks and driven through Thai territory to a Khmer Rouge base. UNTAC officials wanted to announce their discovery but were overruled by officials at the U.N. headquarters in New York City who didn't want an open dispute with Thailand...
...gamble. A group of Mexican tourists recently spotted in the lobby of Phnom Penh's sole luxury hotel were snapping pictures of a wooden model of Angkor Wat, the country's famous 9th century temple complex -- as close as they would get to the real thing. Just days before, Khmer Rouge guerrillas had attacked Siem Reap, the city next to the ruins, and the group's guide refused to go near the place. The Mexicans were forced to content themselves with Phnom Penh -- a city whose attractions include the Tuol Sleng Museum, a high school used as a torture chamber...