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...gone, but that does not preclude new and improved threats. Detente in the East will allow Moscow to cut some of its 45 divisions stationed along the Chinese border. That's good, but not if it relieves pressure on the Kremlin to reduce troops in Eastern Europe. For Cambodia, the relaxation has accelerated the pullback of Soviet-supported Vietnamese soldiers. That's good, but not if it eases the return to influence of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge...
...clear from reports by both sides that no agreement had been reached on Cambodia, where the Soviets support a decade-old Vietnamese occupation and the Chinese arm rebels...
...Communist red -- a new anthem, and constitutional amendments to liberalize the economy, make Buddhism the state religion and bar capital punishment. The Prime Minister also announced that his country's name will henceforth revert from the People's Republic of Kampuchea to the old Sihanouk-era State of Cambodia...
...labors, Soviet tanks and troops have been withdrawn from Afghanistan and are being partially withdrawn from Eastern Europe. A whole class of nuclear weapons has been marked for destruction under the INF treaty signed in 1987. As the Soviets and their allies disentangle themselves from conflicts in Namibia and Cambodia, they are making diplomatic inroads in the Middle East and China. "Shevardnadze has mastered the foreign policy agenda," says Robert Legvold, director of Columbia University's W. Averell Harriman Institute of Soviet Affairs. "He is of a similar creative mind as Gorbachev, not simply his tool...
Three months after Moscow's troop withdrawal, President Najibullah hangs tough in Kabul. -- Will Prince Sihanouk return home to Phnom Penh as the leader of Cambodia? -- Arafat "voids" the P.L.O. charter and scores a diplomatic success in Paris. -- Facing financial disaster, Argentina's voters consider putting a Peronist back in power...