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Article: Cambodia's Fragile Recovery // Rebels on Run, Economy Improving as Coalition Holds It Together
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 1, 1994
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PHNOM PENH Nearly a year after Cambodia held national elections under
United Nations auspices, there is a war raging, the economy is
limping, and gunmen roam the roads. But the country is not a basket
case.
The government, an odd-couple coalition of a failed communist
regime and a royalist guerrilla force, is still in place despite a
decade of hatred and widespread predictions it would collapse.
Its combined army has captured the headquarters of the Khmer
Rouge near the Thai border and has the Maoist guerrilla group - which
ruled Cambodia in a savage reign from 1975 to 1978 - on the
defensive, if not defeated.
After years of runaway inflation that meant printing money to
pay salaries, ...