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- WORLD, Page 53World NotesDIPLOMACYA Fragile Peace
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- The peace treaty took two years to work out, but foreign
- ministers of 18 countries and representatives from four
- Cambodian political factions finally signed it in Paris last
- week. The accord is supposed to lead to a permanent cease-fire
- in the civil war, demobilization, repatriation of 350,000
- refugees, and United Nations-supervised elections by early 1993.
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- That vision of a democratic Cambodia, alas, is fraught
- with peril. Chief fear is that the Khmer Rouge, the rebel
- faction that ruled the country with a brutal hand in the
- mid-1970s, may try once again to seize power.
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- The signing of the accord, however, produced one glimmer
- of hope. With the Cambodian issue settled for the moment, the
- U.S. announced that it is ready to seek normal relations with
- Vietnam. That could lead to an infusion of aid and investment
- dollars, which would breathe new life into Hanoi's stagnant
- economy and might even stem the crushing flow of Vietnamese boat
- people to foreign shores.
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