Word: returned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's economy operates at only 60% of its prewar level, its port facilities at just one-third. There is a 50,000-ton rice shortage in a country that was once a major exporter. Over everything hangs the threat of renewed civil war -- and the possibility of a return by the Khmer Rouge, whose murderous leaders have taken their place in the nation's demonology...
...former head of state, the wily and mercurial Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 67, who remains a powerful psychological symbol of better times. Last week, after the leaders held two days of talks in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, Sihanouk indicated for the first time that he was prepared to return home as head of state without his partner in opposition, the Khmer Rouge. But the former monarch laid on a host of ifs and buts to his offer that leave his return in doubt...
...will meet the demands for a more liberal, multiparty government, said Sihanouk, "I will accept his government, his administration," and return home in October or November. Hun Sen responded symbolically by arriving in Jakarta with a new flag -- Sihanouk's red and blue, instead of Communist red -- a new anthem, and constitutional amendments to liberalize the economy, make Buddhism the state religion and bar capital punishment. The Prime Minister also announced that his country's name will henceforth revert from the People's Republic of Kampuchea to the old Sihanouk-era State of Cambodia...
...Congress too influential voices are calling for negotiations. Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn last week proposed a U.S. commitment to negotiate in return for three conditions: the West Germans would agree not to reduce all the way to zero; no actual reductions would be made until the outcome of talks on conventional arms becomes clear; and Bonn would accept modernization of whatever Lance force remains...
...fact remains that the majority of young American Samoans leave the island within a year of graduation, often to return disenchanted with both the mainland and their island homeland. And alcoholism is a perennial concern in a country where beer sometimes seems as much in abundance as water. In the cricket-chattering dusk, John Kneubuhl, a grand old man of the island, who went from here to Yale and then to a screenwriting career in Hollywood, recalls how he used to play hide-and-seek in the ghost-filled dark as a boy. Now, he says, traditions are fading...