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...temple, called Angkor Wat, was the work of the ancient Khmer kings of Angkor, whose empire stretched from what is now southern Vietnam to Burma. Today a first-time visitor may feel like a modern Indiana Jones who spies misty towers peaking behind dense foliage and thinks he has discovered a lost civilization...
...blue helmets must also verify the removal of all Vietnamese troops from Cambodia. Just how many might remain is hotly contested, but the Khmer Rouge, eager to see even indigenous ethnic Vietnamese expelled, are likely to press the issue. As the U.N. troops search for foreign forces, they are supposed to locate and confiscate weapons caches as well. And they must deactivate hundreds of thousands of mines that poison the country's rugged terrain before the 370,000 refugees living in camps along the Thai border can be repatriated. The U.N. mission is also expected to make adequate preparations...
...confrontation's over. The two great rivals of the postwar era -- America and the Soviet Union -- are more or less friends. East and West Germany are one. Even North and South Korea have signed a treaty of reconciliation. Yes, much of the world remains as fractious as ever: the Khmer Rouge has followed Prince Sihanouk back to the haunted palaces of Cambodia, and Iraq occupies the place on the blacklist formerly reserved for its % archenemy Iran. But in a world where even South Africa is again part of the Olympic family, it may seem that the Olympic Games...
...hardly enough, though, to expel a few thousand mid-level bureaucrats from the alleged Eden inside the Washington Beltway. Really purging the Washington culture enough to satisfy its noisiest critics will require a mass exodus on the order of what the Khmer Rouge instituted when they took over Phnom Penh in 1975. Until the very members of the TIME Washington bureau itself are traipsing south along I-95, their word processors strapped to their backs, the nation cannot rest easy. But America's would-be Khmer Rouge should give Senator Byrd more credit for showing...
...Meanwhile, some rural Cambodians will probably remain susceptible to Khmer Rouge populist appeals as Pol Pot's men cultivate votes. Their propaganda, though crude, can be effective. Near an abandoned pagoda about 50 miles northeast of Phnom Penh, a wall is inscribed with the caricature of an urban intellectual. His fat tongue bears the message, THE RICH MAN HAS POWER. THE POOR ARE SCARED...