Word: pols
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...issue was not only the fate of the long-suffering Cambodians but also the competing strategic interests of China and the Soviet Union. The Soviets have been subsidizing Hanoi at a cost of $3 million to $6 million a day since 1979, after the Vietnamese ousted the Peking-supported Pol Pot government from Cambodia. In turn, the Chinese have armed the Khmer Rouge guerrillas, who have been harrying Hanoi's occupying army. Ultimately, Peking seeks to restore the Pol Pot regime to power in Phnom-Penh in spite of the fact that his Communist regime slaughtered an estimated...
...list of extracurricular activities two pages long, John includes a stint as local youth coordinator for the 1976 Udall for President a Campaign. The candidate's two-vote loss in a town primary kept the young pol from attending the Democratic national convention that year. In addition to his political involvements, John led what he calls "a double life" as a troublemaker--despite a good academic record--and waited for the Harvard admissions officers to discover they'd made a real mistake. After his first set of midterms, he "realized it wasn't as demanding as I'd thought...
Rostenkowski, 53, known widely as "Danny," is a member of an endangered species: a dyed-in-the-polyester Cook County pol trained by late Mayor Richard J. Daley to put party before everything. Rostenkowski learned his lesson well. He once impressed House Democrat Richard Gephardt of Missouri by following up some legislative support he had promised with a simple note: "I keep my word. Dan." Says Chicago political analyst Don Rose of Rostenkowski: "He is not an ideological politician. He is Mr. Practicality...
...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 to have been murdered or starved to death before the Vietnamese moved in to stop the slaughter...
...truly united under Sihanouk and even if aided on a large scale from the outside, could dislodge the Vietnamese. In addition, even if an alliance of convenience were eventually to triumph over the Vietnamese forces in the country, which are estimated at 200,000, there is the danger that Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge might then turn its guns against Son Sann and Sihanouk. Moreover, not even the firm anti-Soviet predisposition of the Reagan Administration is likely to dispel American reluctance to get involved in another conflict with the Vietnamese...