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- WORLD, Page 41World NotesCAMBODIABack in The Picture?
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- Pol Pot, head of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal regime during
- the 1970s, has not been seen in public for about 10 years. Last
- week, however, the Asian Wall Street Journal reported that he
- was lurking in the background when Cambodian peace talks were
- held in Thailand in June. While negotiations with the Vietnam-
- backed government of Hun Sen were under way, the ex-dictator
- reportedly instructed the guerrillas from a secret location
- nearby. He is said to have acceded to government demands to
- designate Phnom Penh as the seat of the four-party Supreme
- National Council, consisting of the Khmer Rouge, the Hun Sen
- faction and two noncommunist groups.
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- Only a few months ago, Pol Pot's presence anywhere near
- such a conference might have set back the peace process by
- provoking objections from Hun Sen, whose government has
- condemned him and seven others to death. The subdued reaction
- to the news seemed to confirm that with warming relations
- between Vietnam and China, there is real momentum in the drive
- to settle the 12-year-old conflict.
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