And in February a scholarly conference at Washington University in St. Louis assessed her influence on avant-garde fiction, poetry and film.

This conference assesses some of the factors involved in the current luck of instability and doomed peace and reconciliation conferences of the past two decades in Somalia, there is a hope for Somalian people about the outcome of this Conference to be very difference than the past ones.

Foreign Minister Roland Dumas of France said the United Nations mission was exploratory and would report information that will help the conference assess the logistical situation in Cambodia, the conditions under which a cease-fire could be established and the possibility of holding free elections to install a democratic and nonaligned government.

The conference assesses the past year, elaborates on plans for the new one and looks ahead for the next three years.