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After years of carnage, all is relatively quiet on three fronts in the cold war. The Afghan city of Jalalabad is still holding out against a rebel siege. Most Nicaraguan insurgents are sulking in their tents in Honduras. The various factions in Cambodia are spending at least as much time these days maneuvering against one another at international conferences as fighting in the jungle...
...U.S.S.R.'s foreign entanglements: they are expensive, diverting resources that might otherwise go to domestic reform; and they provoke worldwide antagonism at a time when Moscow is looking for capitalist goods and credits. So Gorbachev has withdrawn Soviet troops from Afghanistan, encouraged the Vietnamese to end their occupation of Cambodia and warned Fidel Castro that the Kremlin will not indefinitely underwrite the export of revolution in Latin America...
...conflicts. In Nicaragua the Reagan Administration wanted to overthrow the Sandinistas; the contras were a means to that all-or- nothing end. The Bush Administration, by contrast, is seeking a political settlement that would entail some sort of power sharing between the Sandinistas and their opponents. During consultations on Cambodia in Brunei last week, Secretary of State James Baker made it clear that the U.S. is more willing than it was a year ago to accept the current Vietnamese-backed leaders in Phnom Penh as part of a future coalition -- and more committed than before to preventing any return...
...himself behind the scenes too. Last month the Indiana conservative formed an unlikely alliance with a Brooklyn liberal, Congressman Stephen Solarz, on a complex issue. Quayle returned from a trip to Southeast Asia convinced that the U.S. should give military assistance to Prince Norodom Sihanouk's faction in Cambodia. Solarz shared that view. Together they lobbied to deflect a Senate proposal to bar such aid. Quayle's initiative surprised Solarz on two counts. "Quayle seemed to be one of the few in the Administration who really seized the issue," he says. And in Solarz's 15-year career...
...most recent case is Burma, which has just renamed itself Myanma (pronounced Mee-ahn-ma), the name the Burmese, oops, the Myanmans, have always preferred. In April Cambodia, which since 1976 had been known as Kampuchea, became Cambodia again. That was the fifth time in the past 20 years that the country has changed its name. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian resistance leader who is notorious for his own shifting stance on his country, has at least found a way to keep up with its changing names. When he speaks English, he calls the country Cambodia. When he speaks Khmer...