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Haig was making major foreign policy statements of his own last week. At a United Nations conference on Cambodia he attended with U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, he attacked the Soviet Union and its "puppet regimes" in Southeast Asia. He also gave a speech designed to reassure NATO allies that the U.S. is seriously committed to resuming talks with the Soviets, before the end of the year, on limiting medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe. Said Haig: "The charge that we are not interested in arms control or that we have cut off communications with the Soviets is simply not true...
...joins a plan to get Viet Nam out of Cambodia...
...want to bring it to its senses." So declared Singapore's Foreign Minister Suppiah Dhanabalan last week as 93 governments met in a special U.N. session to discuss a complex and contentious problem: how to persuade-or pressure-Viet Nam to pull its 200,000 troops out of Cambodia...
Right from the start, the conference faced one major handicap: the absence of the three principals. Boycotting the session were Viet Nam, which has occupied Cambodia for the past 30 months, and the Soviet Union, which had bankrolled the Vietnamese invasion. Cambodia, whose government was installed by Viet Nam, was not invited...
...Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)* hoped that the conference would provide what Washington termed a "framework for settlement" and offer some inducements for Hanoi to retreat from its costly adventure. ASEAN introduced a plan designed to dispel Hanoi's fear that its enemy, China, might attempt to seize Cambodia if Viet Nam withdrew from the country. The proposal called for disarming all forces contending for power in Cambodia, including 30,000 to 40,000 Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge guerrillas. A neutral, interim government under U.N. supervision would then be established to organize free elections...