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Phnom Penh June 1970. I fell in love this month; with a woman; with a city. with a country. Cambodia has had a special appeal for nearly 40 years. MORE COMING SOON
March 1975. I arrived back in Phnom Penh late and in a rush. I had been lobbying NBC News in New York since Christmas ’74. The Far Eastern Economic Review agreed to run my stories. I should have returned earlier or never left. Now I had less than six week before the beginning of Year Zero. MORE COMING SOON
1979. Vietnamese troops took the Cambodian capital in January. On April 12, 1979, four years to the day of my hasty retreat from “the Khmer Republic,” I crossed the border from Vietnam to Cambodia. Highway One from Bavet to Phnom Penh was a road of human misery. MORE COMING SOON
By January 1980, after two months travelling the road of Cambodia, the documentary shoot was nearly complete. It was time however to attend to some pressing personal business. A reunion and an unusual flight to Singapore. MORE COMING SOON
By 1999 - Pol Pot was dead but the Khmer Rouge who had brutalized the country for years had retreated to new ways and new lives in a far western Cambodian boom town named Pailin. ABC News Nightline sent me back for a look. MORE COMING SOON
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