Word: pols
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...said Cambodia's Premier Pol Pot at a banquet in Peking some weeks ago. After the leader of Kampuchea, as Cambodia was renamed when its Khmer Rouge Communists seized power in 1975, visited China, some changes in Southeast Asia's most militantly xenophobic regime appeared. Obviously at Peking's urging, the government once again acknowledged, though not diplomatically, neighboring Thailand, with whom it had previously had little contact. Last month the country's Foreign Minister, Ieng Sary, came to New York City, where he played host at a United Nations cocktail party for 200 diplomats...
Since the Communists took control, if refugee reports are correct, at least 500,000 people out of a population that once totaled 7 million have either been executed or have died from a variety of causes. Premier Pol Pot has declared that another 2% of the population are still "enemies of democratic Cambodia." Presumably they are in danger of what the government euphemistically describes as "the elimination of contradictions...
...pursuit of truth and the employment of people with degrees in Asian studies. If only Harvard fundraisers had the diplomatic skills of Fletcher fundraisers, might we not similarly be blessed with a John Vorster Chair of Race Relations, a Kim Il Sung Chair of International Peace, or a Pol Pot Professorship of Population Policy and Kampuchean History? Len Leverson...
Carter's enthusiasm for Great Britain's James Callaghan is that of one pol for another. His regard for France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is rooted in the Frenchman's intellect. Egypt's Anwar Sadat made sense to Carter. "I wouldn't mind spending a weekend fishing with him," said Carter about Canada's Pierre Elliott Trudeau. While he was in London, the President met with the leaders of 16 nations from Luxembourg to Greece. He was armed with personal fact sheets and psychological profiles of each...
OFTEN ANTAGONISTS, the mayor and the city councilors easily unite over this issue because it is not a struggle of pol against pol, but of the pols against an independent investigator. With its broad mandate and the power to subpoena witnesses and records, no agency or individual is immune from its inspection. The finance commission exposed Kerrigan several years ago when he chaired the Boston School Committee. Kerrigan and other school committee members, following a tradition in Boston politics that precedes even the infamous Honey Fitz's career, squeezed the city employees they supervised for money through testimonial dinners...