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Article: HOPE SPRINGS ANEW FROM KILLING FIELDS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 30, 1989
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - In Cambodia, the abused child of
international power politics, the trauma of the past 20 years of
war, invasion and social disruption is still palpable. But new
economic energy in the once-abandoned capital and reforms in the
impoverished countryside are giving the country new confidence
despite a continuing civil war.
With Vietnam withdrawing its troops, after 10 years of
propping up the government, there is intense diplomatic activity
involving the powers of the region, who are trying to bring about a
national reconciliation of the Cambodian factions and an end to
the interference that has fueled this conflict.
Meanwhile, the war goes on, and despite ...