I
will remember the late US Congressman (NY) Stephen Solarz with great
warmth: he wrote a review for my memoir (then yet a draft in search of a
publisher) invited me for a nice conversation over coffee in downtown
Wash. D.C. AND for Thanksgiving at his McLean home with the Singaporean
ambassador and asked her to give me a ride there.
CAMBODIA'S CURSE (Joel Brinkley):
In Washington Solarz found himself
one of the only members of the U.S. government who spent any time
thinking about the true victims, the Cambodian people....
Hun
sen became the focal point of Washington's ire, the Communist stooge in
Phnom Penh who did Vietnam's bidding. "I thought of him, basically, as a
thug," Solarz said... While the rest of Washington saw Hun Sen and the
others as Communist puppets of Vietnam, "Steve was concerned that the
Cambodian PEOPLE were being ruled by former Khmer Rouge leaders."
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