Word: kampuchea
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...consequences of U.S. intervention in Kampuchea have made a mockery of American intentions before, and they could do so again. The emergence of Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge was partly a result of misguided American policy 20 years ago. Richard Nixon's secret bombing of Kampuchea in 1969 and the CIA's support for a coup by a feckless military junta the following spring contributed to the chaos in which the Khmer Rouge thrived. In 1975 Pol Pot seized power and unleashed a holocaust...
...Khmer Rouge, whom the arch-moralist Jimmy Carter called "the worst % violators of human rights in the world," became an instrument to drive the Vietnamese out of Kampuchea...
...past year the U.S. has grown increasingly concerned that the Khmer Rouge might fill a vacuum left by a Vietnamese retreat from Kampuchea. As part of Mikhail Gorbachev's overall policy of defusing Third World conflicts, Moscow has been pressuring Viet Nam to end its occupation. Hanoi has agreed to pull out all its troops by September. In response, China seems willing to cut off support to the Khmer Rouge once the Vietnamese complete their withdrawal...
...With a view toward future elections, the government has initiated a series of rural land reforms, and its economic liberalizations have been bringing a measure of prosperity to + this benighted land. With hopes rising that Viet Nam's soldiers will eventually be gone, perhaps peace, too, will visit tortured Kampuchea before long...
...humane or to crush the intifadeh. -- The shaky fortunes of Gorby Inc. -- El Salvador's latest terror. -- Will the Khmer Rouge wreck Kampuchea's peace hopes...