Word: pols
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambodia (Kampuchea), Hanoi's puppet regime, led by Heng Samrin, is firmly installed in Phnom-Penh and has restored a measure of order to the wartorn, famine-stricken country. Even so, stubborn resistance continues in the countryside, spearheaded by the Khmer Rouge, the fighting force of the ousted Pol Pot regime. An estimated 40,000 strong, the Khmer guerrillas have managed to hang on to crucial sanctuaries with the help of substantial political and military aid from Viet Nam's hostile neighbor to the north, the People's Republic of China...
...urgent problem affecting both foreign and defense pol icy is the degree of alarm that has characterized domestic crit icism...
...charging breach of contract. "The plans are madness," snorted John West, assistant professor of political science, who flew back from Paris for the new term only to discover that his class had been scrapped. Students registered for West's course in Middle Eastern Politics found themselves dumped into Pol...
...Freedom of Information Act, carefully delineates the devious (and perhaps even unconstitutional) machinations of Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. Shawcross traces the course of events which led to Cambodia's downfall in 1975, and concludes with his analysis of the reasons leading to the massive brutalities committed under Pol...
Prince Sihanouk explains how the Khmer Rouge created their army only after "several years of persistent indoctrination" which dated back far before 1970. It was all part of an effort of the Khmer Rouge (whose central leadership consisted of only four members: Pol Pot, Ieng Sary, and their wives) to create a fanatically dedicated--and extraordinarily ruthless--army to carry out a plan hatched in the minds of Pol Pot during his education at the Sorbonne. To further this goal, the Khmer Rouge recruited 12-year-olds for intensive training which emphasized forture, the "tantalizing prospect" of playing...