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...before handing over the reins in 1969 to his hand-chosen successor, Fauvet. Under Fauvet, Le Monde moved perceptibly left, supporting Socialist Party Leader François Mitterrand in the 1974 presidential election won by center-right Candidate Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and showing sympathy for the brutal Cambodian Khmer Rouge. In response to increasing criticism from readers and public officials, Fauvet has in the past few years gently nudged Le Monde back toward the political center, most recently chiding French foreign policy for being too soft on the Soviets and too hard on the Americans...
...looks at home in a tweed three-piece suit, especially for one who didn't enjoy the strains of daily journalism. "Daily journalism is very bad in terms of giving scope and finding out what the hell is going on," says Shawcross. So in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge overran neighboring Cambodia, and Shawcross began to get horror stories from the refugees he talked with, he returned to London wondering "who these people were and how they had gotten this way." He persuaded his editors at the Sunday Times to let him report further...
Short said he was disappointed that Congress cut the aid President Carter had promised to Cambodia from $69 to $30 million in its effort to balance the budget. Short added he believes the U.S. government has been hesitant to aid the Cambodian people, fearing it would help consolidate the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia's communist government...
Samphan also granted an exclusive interview to Clark, the first he has given since he became Premier. Composed, almost serene, Samphan sat at a table beneath a canopy of banyan trees as silent Khmer Rouge soldiers stood guard. Excerpts from the 90-minute conversation...
...feel that your government made mistakes during the four years that the Khmer Rouge held power in Phnom-Penh...