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Earlier yesterday, Weinberger toured the tense Thai-Cambodian border and got a rousing welcome from villagers who have suffered from border battles between Cambodian rebels and Vietnamese forces that occupy the neighboring country...
...This is my people, my home and my heart," said Dr. Haing S. Ngor, on the Thai border of his troubled homeland, Cambodia. A year after his Oscar-winning portrayal of a news photographer's harrowing escape from the Communist Khmer Rouge in The Killing Fields, the physician turned movie star has returned to Southeast Asia to complete a European television documentary and a book. "I want to show the suffering of the Cambodian people," he explained after meeting Chen Ian, 12, whose parents were killed in a Vietnamese attack on their refugee camp. The latest rulers in Phnom-Penh...
...microcomputer graphics. The only small number Huang is concerned with is his age. He is nine years old. "I want to be a doctor, a surgeon," he says, "but I'll probably have to wait until I'm 21 before they'll let me practice." The only child of Thai immigrants, he was reading at age two (before he could talk), at four scored 159 on an IQ test (140 is generally considered genius level), also at four taught his chemical engineer father BASIC computer language (are you keeping up with all this?) and finished high school at eight...
...week's end some of the plotters still had not been identified. Thai military officials were certain, however, that one of the ringleaders was a former army colonel, Manoon Roopkachorn, leader of the so-called young Turks who mounted the 1981 effort to oust Prem. Although coup instigators are often treated leniently, the Prime Minister indicated that things would be different this time. At a press conference in Bangkok, the government announced the appointment of a three-member panel of police officers to conduct an investigation of the abortive coup. Still, there was reason to wonder how tough the Thai...
South Africa reconsiders citizenship and pass laws. A KGB official defects, and Britain expels 25 Soviets. A Thai coup foiled...