Word: pols
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Then, when Vietnamese forces invaded Pol Pot's Cambodia in 1979. Chorn escaped to the jungle and ultimately reached a Thai refugee camp. An American adopted Chorn and eight other Cambodian refugees bringing them...
...people of Cambodia, the nightmare is never-ending. First there was the murderous U.S. "sideshow" to the Vietnam War that took the form of B-52 raids on innocent civilians in the early 1970s. When the U.S. left Indochina in 1975, the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot took over and instituted a bloodbath in the name of one of the most insane ideologies to come to the face of the earth. And their bloody rule gave way in 1978 to that of the Vietnamese, who are determined to fight "to the last Cambodian" to realize their long-sought...
Attacks like the strike against Rithysen have become an annual dry-season ritual in the six years since Viet Nam invaded Kampuchea, then known as Cambodia, and installed the Heng Samrin regime in Phnom Penh. Even though the brutal former Khmer Rouge government of Pol Pot had been blamed for the deaths of as many as 2 million of the country's 6 million people between 1975 and 1978, many Kampucheans fought back against the Vietnamese invasion as best they could. Some 500,000 civilians and several thousand guerrillas took refuge in camps close to the Thai border. Year after...
Kerry has also had to fight the image of privileged pol, which was vivified in one of the most bitter exchanges of the Democratic primary race, which Kerry won by a narrow margin over Rep. James M. Shannon (D. Lawrence). In a radio debate with Kerry, Shannon said. "The middle name Forbes doesn't give you the right to go around impugning people's integrity." Kerry had attacked Shannon for the alleged role he played in giving a tax break to a local life insurance company...
...Kentucky Governor Martha Layne Collins; they join San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, who favorably impressed Mondale during her session, as women contenders. Also due in North Oaks is San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, the first Hispanic to be considered. Despite the lengthening parade of applicants, at least one experienced pol was convinced that Mondale's vice-presidential field was quickly narrowing. Predicted House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "It's going to be Hart or a woman...