Word: noncommunist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Emerging as a seemingly irreconcilable difference was the future role of the Khmer Rouge, the strongest of three resistance groups fighting the Vietnamese and the pro-Hanoi government in Cambodia. The resistance is armed by China and led by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, a noncommunist who believes having the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh during an interim period leading to elections would be better than fighting them in the jungles...
Japan, the West and noncommunist Southeast Asian countries agree on that approach. Vietnam, the Soviet Union and Cambodia's pro-Hanoi government reject inclusion of the Khmer Rouge...
...YEARS. 88 nations have committed themselves to reducing international trade barriers by signing the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT). Haunted by the memories of the high tariff policies of the Great Depression and persuaded by the arguments of free trade economics, almost all the world's noncommunist countries have agreed that protectionism is a dirty word. But the tenuous consensus reached in Geneva last Monday by the GATT ministers fails to break down trade barriers. Instead, it just sweeps them under...
DIED. George R. Stewart, 85, prolific novelist and scholar of literature, American history, forestry and meteorology who received acclaim for his "weather novels" Storm and Fire; in San Francisco. A professor of English for 38 years at the University of California at Berkeley, Stewart battled the regents over the "nonCommunist loyalty oath" required of faculty in 1950, and later documented the experience in The Year of the Oath. Also recognized as an authority on onomastics, the science of names, he noted in American Place-Names that Deathball Rock, Ore., commemorated "an unsuccessful attempt to make biscuits...