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...most recent threat to Angkor arose during Cambodia's 20-year-long civil war, which began in the early 1970s. The Khmer Rouge, whose genocidal reign of terror killed an estimated 1 million Cambodians, did little direct damage to the monuments, but the fighting made maintenance impossible. Says B. Narasimhaiah, the head of an Indian archaeology team at Angkor Wat: "Wherever there is a small crack, dust will accumulate and soon a bush will spring up." All but a few of the major temples are covered in weeds, small bushes and even large trees...
...EMPERORS by Harrison E. Salisbury (Little, Brown; $24.95). Enlivened by dozens of interviews, this narrative history of China under communism by a seasoned journalist documents the chaos and corruption of Mao Zedong's reign and the inexorable trend toward glasnost that started under Deng Xiaoping...
...pages; $24.95) and The Claws of the Dragon: Kang Sheng by John Byron and Robert Pack (Simon & Schuster; 560 pages; $27.50) -- indicate that glasnost is coming, inexorably, to Beijing. They provide the most detailed and personal accounts so far of the chaos, cruelty and corruption that Mao Zedong's reign inflicted on the nation...
BOOKS The chaos, cruelty and corruption of emperor Mao's reign...
Come to Dunster and take a taste of history. Of Berry, the only hope I have is that, as Handel says, "He shall reign for ever and ever...