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Peking regards the Vietnamese occupation as Soviet expansionism by proxy, and has sought to drum up international support for the Khmer Rouge. It has successfully persuaded the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Na tions (ASEAN) and other anti-Soviet countries to back the Khmer Rouge and its shadow government, called Democratic Kampuchea in the United Nations. The U.S. and other Western countries have gone along, but with extreme distaste. The reason: Democratic Kampuchea is the outgrowth of Pol Pot's four-year reign of terror, in which as many as 3 mil lion Cambodians are believed...
Therefore, the Saudis share the responsibility of major industri alized countries to help the international financial institutions as sist the LDCs. In the long run it is in the interests of the West and its wealthy friends in the Third World to wean the poorer na tions from their current paradoxical addiction: socialist nostrums at home financed by capitalist largesse from abroad...
...Public Interest (circ. 13,500). Edited by Irving Kristol, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Na than Glazer, this quasi-academic quarterly has since 1965 sought to influence legislation in Washington. To do so, Public Interest tailors its content to provide solid reference materials for congressional staff members. The winter issue, for instance, examines family policy, Social Security and crime in public schools...
...founding president of the European Community Youth Orchestra, an ensemble of 130 young musicians from the nine Europe an Community na tions, Heath periodically transcends his fallen state and conducts a little Mozart, most recently at a Youth Orchestra concert in France's Loire Valley. The audience there cheered the maestro on, but some picky French critics thought that European harmony would be better served if Heath stuck to his other avocation, yachting. Sniffed the reviewer for France-Soir...
...Soviets call it living na levo-"on the left." At its simplest, it is nothing more than passing on to the local butcher tickets for a popular soccer game or concert in return for a good cut of meat; tipping off the plumber about a shipment of shoes that is due to arrive in a shop as payment for fixing a leaking pipe; or holding down a second job as a furniture mover or apartment painter. Na levo can and does, however, also extend to smuggling consumer goods in from the West, running a hidden factory, stealing state-owned materials...