World IN BRIEF : CAMBODIA : Mitterrand Warns of Renewed War
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French President Francois Mitterrand told rival factions that full-scale war could resume unless they patch up differences over a U.N.-brokered peace accord. Mitterrand, the first French president to visit the former colony since 1966, said Cambodia had been the focus of an unprecedented peacemaking effort by the international community, and that “disagreements among the parties must not end up thwarting this action.”
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