Word: leader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Khmer Rouge's principal backer is China. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who also relies on Chinese patronage, is the overall leader of the resistance and likely to head any coalition. Although the Khmer Rouge slaughtered 40 of his relatives, Sihanouk, like the U.S., has given priority to getting the Vietnamese out of Phnom Penh, even if it means letting some Khmer Rouge back in. Also like the U.S., he is hoping it will be easier to neutralize the Khmer Rouge if some of them are running ministries rather than assassinating ministers...
Chinese dissident student leader Wuer Kaixi, who reportedly wants to attend Harvard, was in Byerly Hall this week to take placement tests and the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement. I hope he passed the QRR. Can you see the revolutionary who turned a nation of a billion people on its ear having to take an introductory statistics class because he scored only...
First, Americans, including members of the United States military, like to see themselves as somehow above the dirty business of terrorism. A prime example of this attitude is the U.S. condemnation of the recent Israeli abduction of Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, the leader of one of the Lebanese extremist groups holding Westerners hostage. Such a moral stance, while fine in a vacuum, fails to take the reality of the situation into consideration...
...clearly different, even at first sight. At 5 ft. 6 in., she is tall for a Japanese woman. When she speaks, people hear a great deep rumble with just a hint of grit. In a land where unmarried women are considered somehow incomplete, Doi remains steadfastly single. But the leader of the Japan Socialist Party has used her difference to advantage. Says Shinobu Tabata, her mentor at Doshisha law school in Kyoto: "She was big, loud and pushy to start with. I knew from the first day she came into my office that she would make a fine politician...
...parley among the four warring Cambodian factions broke down just hours after it began. The talks were resumed by the factions -- the country's Vietnamese-backed government, represented by Prime Minister Hun Sen, and a resistance coalition that includes two non-Communist groups under Prince Norodom Sihanouk andnationalist leader Son Sann, as well as the Khmer Rouge -- only after they finally agreed to sit together at this ^ week's conference under the single name Cambodia...