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...first time in 18 years. He sought out old friends and sources, including the jovial, rotund chef who used to serve a legendary souffle Grand Marnier in Phnom Penh's Cafe de Paris. Today the Cambodian capital's French restaurants are gone, but the chef survived the brutal Khmer Rouge years and has opened a far more modest Cambodian eatery where he still whips up a souffle. Says Cloud: "While it's only a pale imitation of the one he used to make, it must be regarded, under the circumstances, as a valiant...
Should the U.S. rethink its attitude toward Hanoi? Why does Washington support the murderous Khmer Rouge today? These questions are addressed in this week's issue. They will also be pursued in a joint ABC-TIME forum moderated by Peter Jennings this Thursday, April 26, at 11:30 p.m. EDT. Following a 10 p.m. ABC News special on Vietnam, Jennings, with Cloud, will lead a discussion of U.S. policy toward Indochina. Other guests will include Henry Kissinger, General William Westmoreland, Nebraska Senator and Vietnam veteran Robert Kerrey and former Lieut. William Calley, the U.S. commander during the My Lai massacre...
...first time Hout Seng saw the Khmer Rouge up close, they were running past his ground-floor apartment on the southern outskirts of Phnom Penh. They wore black pajamas and sandals made of tires, and had branches tied to their backs as camouflage. All carried AK-47s. It was the morning of April 17, 1975. % After five years of war, the Communist rebels were on the brink of victory. As the government's remaining defenses collapsed, more and more guerrillas poured past Seng's residence into the capital. By midafternoon the war was over, and people were celebrating...
...news was promising. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council agreed in Paris last week that the United Nations should help administer and police war-weary Cambodia until a new government is elected. But it remains to be seen to what extent the contending factions -- especially the Khmer Rouge, the most powerful of three resistance groups fighting Prime Minister Hun Sen's regime -- will accept U.N. intervention...
...ending the strife. During a visit to Viet Nam and Cambodia last week, Michael Costello, deputy secretary of Australia's foreign affairs department, reportedly got a promising response to his government's proposal that the United Nations administer Cambodia until free elections are held. Also China, which backs the Khmer Rouge, last week welcomed an unspecified role...