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...home to Phnom Penh after a tortuous personal odyssey of nearly 13 years. For all the flag waving and jasmine petals that greeted him, though, the return last week of Cambodia's exiled former head of state brought no certain end to his homeland's generation-long nightmare. The Sino-Soviet rivalry that had helped drive Cambodia's civil war may be history. U.N. troops and officials may have arrived to help restore peace. But the seeds of further ordeals remained strewn everywhere in Sihanouk's tragic country...
Under Harvard's present system, tenure decisions are consigned to ad hoc committees of experts from outside the University. This archaic process excludes innovative scholarship, devalues teaching skills and drives young talent to other schools. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History Hue-Tam Ho Tai, who received a lifetime post in 1989, was the first junior professor promoted within Harvard's History Department in 20 years. No wonder junior faculty members desert Harvard in droves...
...China and the Soviet Union resume normal diplomatic ties, ending 30 year Sino-Soviet Split. In Beijing, 300,000 take to the streets to demand glasnost for China...
...Taoying, a spokesperson for the Chinese embassy said the Chinese government continues to express dissatisfaction with U.S. policy. The Chinese government released a statement last December which said the U.S. government had overstepped its bounds and was interfering in Chinese internal affairs and damaging Sino-U.S. relations...
Last week Scowcroft and Secretary of State James Baker joined Bush's lobbying campaign by phone, while G.O.P. Chairman Lee Atwater and Vice President Dan Quayle prowled for votes in the corridors and cloakrooms of the Capitol. Even Richard Nixon phoned wavering Senators to say that Sino-American relations would suffer if Bush was defeated...