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...root around the market; many of the goods on sale have come across the border from Vietnam. The town was destroyed during the American invasion of 1970; nine years later, Vietnamese tanks and trucks roared along the rutted dirt road as they invaded Cambodia to liberate it from the Khmer Rouge and establish an occupation that would last 10 years...
...ignored need to sleep at least a little bit each night, taking on anything extra is usually out of the question. But an event that has been unfolding thousands of miles from Cambridge is anything but usual. Atrocities akin to those committed by the Nazis and by the Khmer Rouge occur every day in the civil war pitting Serbs, Croats and Muslims against one another in what was once Yugoslavia...
World communism was a chimera even before Kennedy sent U.S. advisers to Vietnam. The Sino-Soviet split began in 1960; later, Mao Zedong refused to let the Soviets send arms to Hanoi by rail across China. In 1978 Vietnam attacked the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and the following year beat back an invasion by China. This was not the sequence of events that Dwight Eisenhower had in mind in 1954 when he propounded the domino theory, the rationale for U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia. Instead, the violent feuding among the region's Marxist regimes in the 1970s and 1980s...
...repatriation of some 375,000 people driven from their country by a 13-year civil war. But the homecoming cannot go much further until U.N. peacekeeping troops, who will soon number 16,000, are able to defuse a battle in Kompong Thom province between ^ government forces and heavily armed Khmer Rouge units...
...battle began in January as the Khmer Rouge moved to seize more territory before the U.N. begins disarming rival forces. Khmer Rouge units under the ruthless leader Ta Mok cut Highway 12, severing the major link to the northern province of Preah Vihear. The Khmer Rouge, whose 1975-79 reign of terror resulted in more than 1 million deaths, spurned repeated U.N. mediation efforts, as did the Phnom Penh regime. A midweek parley seemed to break the ice -- for now -- and a U.N. squad was dispatched to the disputed turf. But the U.N. cannot impose peace in Kompong Thom...