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...pompous English translation of the Chinese official line, the Premier grinned broadly at Carter. Later, Hua used an American cliché to put down Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who has accepted $1.6 billion in Soviet aid in exchange for Indian recognition of the Soviet-backed puppet regime in Cambodia. Mrs. Gandhi, said Hua, had decided to "take the money...
...weapons in a Sverdlovsk military facility, is, as you say, a revelation that is sure to contaminate further the at mosphere of detente. As Alexander Solzhenitsyn says, "This is the same detente that the West basked in so contentedly while millions were being exterminated in the jungles of Cambodia . . . and at a time when a thousand men, including twelve-year-old boys, were being executed in one Afghan village." We need detente like we need a hole in the head...
Hanoi apparently acted also to show its anger over the U.N. repatriation effort. Viet Nam has charged that the program was a plot to strengthen the Khmer Rouge resistance. In the single week that it had been in operation, 8,700 Khmers had returned to Cambodia. Pol Pot's rebel forces somehow managed to survive Cambodia's dry season against overwhelming Vietnamese armor and airpower. Now that the monsoon rains have arrived, the Khmer Rouge's clandestine radio has announced plans to step up the guerrilla war against the 200,000-man Vietnamese army occupying the country...
...military muscle. Viet Nam has long accused Thailand of providing military support to the Khmer Rouge and Khmer Serei guerrillas. Most observers say that the charge is accurate. Khmer soldiers, with Thai acquiescence, habitually seek refuge in the border camps, replenish their food supplies and then return to Cambodia to fight. Thailand, like the U.N., the U.S., China and several other Asian states, has refused to recognize the Hanoi-sponsored Heng Samrin government, even though it succeeded the vicious, genocidal reign...
Thai military officials later said that their artillery had struck a Vietnamese fire base about four miles inside Cambodia. Military casualties were relatively light; the Thais claimed to have recovered 72 Vietnamese dead and lost 22 of their own men. But hundreds of refugees were reported killed, many by a Thai artillery barrage that was lobbed into one of the camps. Others were caught in the crossfire. Two International Red Cross officials and two American photographers were apparently captured by Vietnamese soldiers while they were inspecting the refugee encampment at Nong Chan...