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- <text id=91TT1821>
- <title>
- Aug. 19, 1991: World Notes:Cambodia
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 19, 1991 Hostages:Why Now? Who's Next?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 41
- World Notes
- CAMBODIA
- Back in The Picture?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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