Word: sen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beneath the ravaged surface of the land, there is renewed vitality in this long-suffering country, a newfound sense of confidence. Surprisingly, the government of Hun Sen, installed by the Vietnamese, has begun to seek changes that could win it something no ruler has had for two decades: popular support. Owing largely to increasingly liberal economic policies, the Prime Minister, 38, is gaining credibility both abroad and at home for departing from Communist orthodoxy...
...Sen's efforts to retain power when the last Vietnamese soldiers depart by Sept. 30 is the cooperation of Cambodia's 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...
...months ago, it was accusations of Noriega's involvement with drugrunning that supposedly fueled the State Department's economic sanctions. Now, the election frauds are an excuse for potentially delaying or even cancelling the transfer of Canal rights to their rightful owners. Already, U.S. Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) has decried the treaty's promise to return the Canal to "a madman like Noriega...
Most of the leading candidates--a list rumored to include former Connecticut Sen. Lowell P. Weicker and former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt--have come to the school in recent months as fellows or visiting scholars to meet with students and faculty, according to Lecturer in Public Policy Hale Champion, the search committee head...
...committee, apart from Champion and Williams, includes Neustadt, Democratic National Committee Director Ron Brown, Sen. Robert Dole's (R-Kan.) chief of staff Sheila Burke, former IOP Association Director Nicholas Mitropolis and former IOP Director Jonathan Moore...