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OiAkLuli UtssER ER Monday December 3 1 1990 Cambodia's Wounds Run Urge Son Surrender To Police The council is meant to be a symbolic government with the United Nations running the country organizing a cease-fire planning elections ending all foreign military aid and disarming the four groups fighting for power Meanwhile the country is stagnating Children march into Phnom Penh's restaurants to beg food from the plates of foreigners A mother washes her baby in water from a fire hydrant The bulk of Cambodia's property is so run down that it can't be rented Electricity and running water are a luxury some people carry buckets of water to their homes up flights of stairs daily There are no official records of the country's per capita income or unemployment rate according to Cambodia's mission to the United Nations in New York Said the mission's First Secretary Cheng: "All of the social structure is basically destroyed Statistics are not possible" Some blame Cambodia's troubles on its history as a political pawn The country has been at the mercy of outside powers such as China the Soviet Union and the United States for years "American policytnakers look at Cambodia through an empty Vietnamese glass It is not how to help Cambodia but how to punish Vietnam" said Khieu Kanharith former editor of a weekly state-owned newspaper Khieu was referring to the US trade restrictions imposed against Cambodia because of its I 1-year occupation by Vietnam "The international boycott is keeping us from progressing" From Page IA Friday night Zoretta Diggs moving her business in Hickory Grove their son was of four brothers pm Friday officer was working off-duty her blue police uniform the McDonald's 4440 Tryon St wearing black and a slipped into the restaurant Holding a gun he manager to open a of the holdup robber to freeze witnesses said and His mask came off the door trailed robber who shot least three more into woods told police the Dennis Diggs his found nearby J1 I o'-- 1- 1 t' IVi- l'w-- r' Diggs the officers search They say they were learn what their son 11111AL WE EEC Par gor tllooe glivst 15 Ilbsm The resin's ooi toso eep Further evidence of a country trapped in the past is just inside the National Pediatric Hospital the country's showcase hospital Dr Chour Ymeng the hospital's vice director pointed to the sick people lining hallway floors He showed a visitor the red blotches dotting a baby caused by malnutrition which is easily preventable Chow said only a handful of doctors survived the Khmer Rouge killing fields If more doctors had lived perhaps more children could be saved today he said Ros Sopea a 29-year-old journalism student at Phnom Penh University said there aren't enough social services such as schools or hospitals But she said Cambodia would develop quickly if only the war would end Try the NutriSystene Crave-Free" Weight Loss Program that includes a variety of delicious meals Craving Controtrusnacks nutritional and behavioral counseling light 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automob' "white goods" tors or ovens ci landfills The law reel' dealing in batter old ones People old large applia their local landfil dealers who ofte ances Anyone wl violates state la 6 IA Parents To Continued Then came Thomas and were busy to a new site They assumed visiting one At 10:20 Mavis Haley in at restaurant at A man ski mask ordered a safe Haley told ordered the He spun fired once Haley ran for by the errantly at times and fled Witnesses man was Buick was Diggs' parents said they were startled about 6 am Saturday by two officers with shot- guns knock- ing on their door and others encir- cling their home They let the house stunned to New Continued Also beginning Sports agents with the NC office where they to pay an annual deposit a bond The new law limits on when college athletes the guidelines Collegiate Athletic "We're not agents but people who are said Elliott for the secretary All plastic handed out by recyclable and neither automobile "white goods" or ovens landfills The law dealing in batteries old ones People old large appliances their local landfill dealers who often Anyone who violates state laws ances Anyone who violates state laws was accused of doing the night before They say they haven't heard from him "If he did it he must have been gn something because that's not our Dennis" Thomas Diggs said "I'm sure once he came down from it he felt very bad 471 about it and k' now he's 4----- scared I I hope he'll realize he's t' got to come lki ii74' I S' face up to 1 -tor-60 I this and get help" 1': Thomas Diggs a wiry 5 feet 7 Diggs and tiny compared with his 6-foot 180- pound son talked Sunday about his son's good grades at Olympic High School He spoke of his son's four good years in the Army and his six good years as a police officer the profession of an uncle Dennis Diggs admired Thomas Diggs also talked about Christmas when his son and estranged wife and their three children 6 to 12 years old united at the Diggses' home "I thought he was starting to get things together but this has become a nightmare" said Thomas Diggs "I want to tell the boy his momma and I love him We'll stand behind him Please just come home" As Of Tuesday It'll Be The Law Beginning Tuesday in North Carolina: Men from 16 to 25 convicted of serious crimes can be sentenced to 90 days of boot-camp style discipline and hard labor Sports agents must register with the NC secretary of state and deposit a $100000 bond Car batteries refrigerators and ovens cannot be burled In landfills and water quality and the handling of chemical waste could be convicted of a felony and punished with fines up to $100000 a day and three years in prison The old law treated such violations as misdemeanors "We (now) have the toughest law in the country" said Alan Briggs deputy attorney general NC Laws Take Effect Jan 1 416415111t firti 41" 4fr 6' af iik 3P ow '41': 'i l''1' oftuvam)ledze 0 1 i 1 :4 'i11 Ick) 1 4-''''777kr- l' i' i '1 i r4 re-) 7 pi 646 an 1 'A A' ft 't: N4f 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Lancaster Suite 500 Pineville Tower Pl Festival 890 Statesville 8700 Pineville-Matthews Rd Albemarle By SHEILA MeNULTY Associated Press PHNOM PENH Cambodia Peu Dinda hopping up a hill on one leg with rusty crutches says life won't improve for him no matter who controls Cambodia He is one of the thousands to have lost a part of themselves during Cambodia's 20-year-old civil war In this Southeast Asian country where most people work two or even three jobs to survive the former soldier can't find any job at all Without any formal education he said his only hope is manual labor But with only one leg he fears that's an impossibility He survives on a meager government war stipend Hopelessness grips many Cambodians Since gaining independence from France in 1954 the country has struggled to survive US bombings a superpower-sponsored civil war a Khmer Rouge genocide and an 11-year Vietnamese occupation Promises of peace and prosperity with the next government are greeted with wariness and weariness World leaders have called a peace settlement by Cambodia's four warring groups the long sought-after solution to the country's problems They say a Sept 10 agreement to share power in a Supreme National Council supervised by the United Nations is what the country needs Signing the accord is the Vietnam-installed government of Prime Minister Hun Sen and a coalition that includes the Khmer Rouge Khmer People's National Liberation Front and forces of former Cambodian leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk operation The inspectors' salaries will be paid by the plants not taxpayers The measure is part of an effort to shore up confidence in state regulation efforts after revelations that the now-closed Caldwell Systems Inc incinerator near Lenoir harmed workers and plant neighbors Men from 16 to 25 convicted of crimes calling for a prison sentence of a year or longer can be sent to the Correction Department's IMPACT program 90 days of boot-camp style discipline and manual labor About 235 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