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...week, Secretary of State James Baker made it clear that the U.S. is more willing than it was a year ago to accept the current Vietnamese-backed leaders in Phnom Penh as part of a future coalition -- and more committed than before to preventing any return by the genocidal Khmer Rouge...
...country has changed its name. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian resistance leader who is notorious for his own shifting stance on his country, has at least found a way to keep up with its changing names. When he speaks English, he calls the country Cambodia. When he speaks Khmer, he calls it Kampuchea. When he speaks French, he refers to it as Cambodge...
...Chinese border. That's good, but not if it relieves pressure on the Kremlin to reduce troops in Eastern Europe. For Cambodia, the relaxation has accelerated the pullback of Soviet-supported Vietnamese soldiers. That's good, but not if it eases the return to influence of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge...
...remains a powerful psychological symbol of better times. Last week, after the leaders held two days of talks in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, Sihanouk indicated for the first time that he was prepared to return home as head of state without his partner in opposition, the Khmer Rouge. But the former monarch laid on a host of ifs and buts to his offer that leave his return in doubt...
...political settlement that will satisfy not only the warring Cambodian factions but also their foreign sponsors: the Soviet Union and Viet Nam on one side, China and the U.S. on the other. While Hun Sen made a number of gestures toward the Prince, he still refused to allow the Khmer Rouge into the new government before elections; Sihanouk insisted it must be tried. Officially, the U.S. backs a pre-election four-party coalition that would include the Khmer Rouge, though no one wants to see them back in control...