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World IN BRIEF : CAMBODIA : Killings Won’t Deter U.N., Its Chief Says

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said violence will not scare U.N. peacekeepers away from fulfilling their mission to bring peace to Cambodia. He spoke to the staff of the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia shortly after a Japanese U.N. election official was assassinated in central Kompong Thom province in the sixth killing of a peacekeeper in two weeks. Initial U.N. military reports blamed the killing of Atsuhito Nakata, 25, and his Cambodian interpreter on the Khmer Rouge. The United Nations has blamed the radical group for four earlier killings of peacekeepers.

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