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...most serious accusations to be raised at the U.N. in recent years, the U.S. charged in 1981 that the Soviet Union and its allies were using chemical weapons ("yellow rain") in Laos, Cambodia and Afghanistan. Although doctors in the area have produced convincing evidence to support the claim, the U.N. has done little more than send a commission to make a desultory investigation...
...Peking. Deng said that "no real and fundamental improvement in Sino-Soviet relations" was possible until the U.S.S.R. had met three conditions. The Soviets must pull out of Afghanistan, which shares a narrow border with China. Moscow must end its support for Viet Nam's military takeover of Cambodia. Indochina is the soft underbelly of the P.R.C. Peking sees the Hanoi regime as threatening enough in its own right, all the more so since it is an ally of the U.S.S.R. Finally, the Soviets must withdraw their divisions from Mongolia and reduce forces along China's northern frontier...
...remarks translated, but he did reply in Russian. As they sat in U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick's office for their three-hour meeting, Gromyko gave a grim assessment of Soviet-American relations. Shultz, in turn, pressed Gromyko on Moscow's intervention in Poland, Afghanistan and Cambodia, and on use of biological and chemical weapons. The conference produced few concrete results; the main accomplishment was keeping businesslike discussions alive and agreeing to meet again this week...
...trying to remedy that. I am trying to improve, but I have made her my talisman: if she is happy, then I am not my mother." Her father, from whom she has been estranged for years, has disappeared from his old haunts. Rumor has it that he is in Cambodia, doing penance for past sins by treating the victims of the war in Viet Nam. Lily decides to "find him in order...
...port at dawn on Saturday belong to one of the most decorated units in the French army: the Foreign Legion's Deuxième REP (Second Foreign Parachute Regiment), whose history goes back to 1948, when, as the Second Foreign Parachute Battalion, it was sent to Cambodia to maintain internal security. In 1954, as Viet Minh guerrillas tightened their siege of the French base at Dien Bien Phu, 700 members of the battalion were dropped into the camp at night as last-minute reinforcements. Although the French were eventually defeated, the legionnaires fought heroically...