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Lien grew up in a middle-class household in Phnom Penn during the '60s and early '70s (Lien is a pseudonym. She requested that her name and those of her family be changed to protect their privacy). The eldest of eight girls and boys, she worked every day after school in her parents' grocery store, handling bookkeeping and selling such items as Coca-Cola. After work she went home to cat supper, do homework, and help her mother around the house...
Hanoi's frustrations sometimes flare into violence. Late last month, Vietnamese troops began their annual offensive in Kampuchea to flush out the estimated 45,000 armed rebels opposed to the Hanoi-backed government of President Heng Samrin. Vietnamese soldiers destroyed Phnom Chat, a border village sympathetic to the Khmer Rouge, the largest of the guerrilla groups, then pulverized O Samach, a settlement 70 miles to the northeast that served as an outpost for the 30,000 followers of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. During the blitz, however, the Vietnamese aimed their fire not only at the insurgents but at unarmed civilians...
...Vietnamese apparently plan to obliterate the main camps of each of the three resistance groups in turn. Two weeks ago they demolished Phnom Chat, a border settlement loyal to the Khmer Rouge, the largest of the insurgent groups. Three days later, and 70 miles to the northeast, they leveled O Samach, which is also known as Sihanoukville for its 30,000 followers of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who was deposed in 1970. The next Vietnamese target will probably be the camps of Ban Sangae and Nong Samet, which house 96,000 civilians and serve as a center for the Khmer People...
...buoyant career had one bleak period: as deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Cambodia from 1971 to 1974, he helped preside over the collapse of the U.S.-supported government in Phnom Penh. Now, in his Latin America post, Enders foresees similar turmoil. An ardent believer in the domino theory, he envisions much of Central America as nearly ready to topple to leftists...
Cambodia experts have picked up numerous errors of fact. Samples: Phnom Malai is a mountain range, not the capital city of Democratic Kampuchea; the Khmer Rouge do not put poison on their punji sticks; Comrade Kanika, who is described by Jones as "a wiry man with short gray hair," is actually a woman-and has represented the Cambodians in Paris for several years...