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...Khmer Rouge and would require the U.S. to abandon its unyielding opposition to Hun Sen. As Muskie put it in a speech last December, "When we finally left Vietnam, we opened the way for the historic conflict between Vietnam and China to re-emerge. Vietnam went on to invade Cambodia, and China invaded Vietnam. In these conflicts, we took the side of China. Now that phase of their history, and of ours, is over. Or, at any rate, it will be over once we are prepared...
Conditions seem right for the kind of reassessment Muskie recommends. But would the Bush Administration be willing to risk political flak, particularly from the right, if it seemed to be moving toward normalization with Cambodia, let alone Vietnam? The answer to that question will go a long way toward determining whether the bones will continue piling up in Cambodia's killing fields...
...help build a stable peace. -- With an impoverished North and a reviving South, Vietnam is still divided. -- In strife-torn Cambodia, the killing has never ceased...
Three Administrations in Washington have insisted that Vietnam meet several conditions before diplomatic or commercial relations can return to normal. All Vietnamese troops must be permanently withdrawn from Cambodia and a peaceful settlement must be reached in that ravaged land. The roughly 15,000 Amerasian children (now young adults, like many of the children of the MIAs) must be allowed to leave Vietnam if they wish, and political prisoners freed from re- education camps. Questions about the remaining POW/MIAs should be resolved. So runs the checklist of U.S.-Vietnamese policy, as it has for much of the past decade. Hanoi...
Still, the National League of Families issues regular status reports of sightings on a hundred or so of the 2,303 men listed as missing in action or unaccounted for in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Since a Japanese lieutenant hid on a Philippine island for 30 years after World War II before surfacing, anything is possible. But it is more likely that any Americans still in Vietnam remain there for conjugal reasons and have led retiring lives. Either that or the people sighted were really East Europeans or the now grown Amerasian offspring of former G.I.s...