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- <text id=90TT2743>
- <title>
- Oct. 22, 1990: World Notes:Cambodia
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 22, 1990 The New Jazz Age
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 47
- World Notes
- CAMBODIA
- Fancy Footwork
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The tour has been hailed as a phoenix-like revival of an
- exquisite art form that was nearly destroyed by a country's
- bloodshed. But almost from the start of its five-week U.S.
- engagement, the Classical Dance Company of Cambodia has been
- tangled in the ugly factionalism that still divides the
- artists' homeland. Last week, after dancing for a packed house
- in Lowell, Mass., a 24-year-old female member of the company
- decided to seek asylum in the U.S. Four days earlier, three
- other dancers sought political refuge during a concert stop in
- Minnesota.
- </p>
- <p> The dancers' defections have touched off propaganda attacks
- by rival Cambodian political factions. Sponsors of the
- 36-member troupe have accused enemies of the communist
- government of Hun Sen of intimidating the dancers with death
- threats and pressuring them to defect in order to embarrass
- Phnom Penh. A spokesman for Prince Sihanouk denied the charges
- and in turn accused Hun Sen of exploiting the dancers to polish
- his regime's image in the U.S.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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