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...Book Case was one of the world's few perfect bookshops. Customers descended into a cozy maze of stacks and squeezed past the piles of books that cluttered the floor. The owners were friendly and the selection unbelievable. Generations of students fought Coop hegemony by buying their books at The Book Case. It was tough to spend less than an hour crawling around the subterranean stacks and impossible to leave without making at least one great, dirt-cheap find...
Bryant was there to corral the puck and fire a shot through the maze of black, white, and crimson in front of the net past Villiotte...
Understanding Cambodia has always seemed like trying to put together a three-dimensional jigsaw of morality, politics and geography. Some pieces are missing, some are scuffed and torn beyond recognition, some bent completely out of shape; a few fit nowhere at all. The picture appears to show a maze through which the country has been stalked by successive monsters: a coup followed by brutal civil war, careless U.S. policies, strategic bombing, a Marxist revolution so bloody that it came to be called autogenocide, international and regional power politics, liberation and occupation by a hated neighbor, famine, decay and renewed civil...
...Cambodia, the U.N. plan is the last, best hope to escape the maze. For the U.N., it is a test case of whether the world organization can adapt to the new demands of the post-cold war world. As Claude Cheysson, a senior member of the European Parliament, said recently in Phnom Penh, "UNTAC must not fail. It cannot fail." But what constitutes success...
...election is only the middle of the maze, and the road ahead remains obscure and perilous. A U.N. presence must be maintained to offer continued security against political terror from all sides. International aid must continue for years. A national army will have to be built, in the hope that die-hard Khmer Rouge elements can finally be defeated, and then tried...