City lost in the jungle
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A profile on the restoration work being conducted on the temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia by the World Monuments Fund is presented. The deterioration of the temples was aggravated by the destruction wrought by the Khmer Rouge in the mid-1970s, when they took control of Cambodia.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1998
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Alarm bells in the desert
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Saudi Arabia's oil wealth has allowed it to be free of the troubles which have plagued most countries in the Middle East. However, Islamic fundamentalists and political dissidents are becoming more aggressive and they now pose a growing threat to the country's rulers.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1996
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A holy war heads our way
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Islamic radicalism is spreading across the Middle East. This sweeping fundamentalism poses a grave threat to the national-security interests of the US because it rejects Western presence in the Middle East.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1995
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