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...been relegated to the role of sideline observer, without much influence on either combatant. The Administration's position was that the Chinese intrusion was a direct result of the Soviet-encouraged Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, which, in turn, was seen as Moscow's response to the normalization...
Chinese-American relations. U.S. policy was based on the notion that this country should not become involved in a conflict among far-off Communist states. Thus Washington evenhandedly urged Peking and Hanoi to withdraw their troops from both Viet Nam and Cambodia. Pursuing its honest-broker role, the U.S. also pressed for an urgent meeting of the United Nations' Security Council, hoping to rally enough votes for a resolution calling for reciprocal withdrawal...
...proposed U.S. resolution, while China and the Soviet Union offered diametrically opposed resolutions, one condemning the aggression by Viet Nam, the other condemning aggression by China. On Saturday, in protest against the council's decision to give the floor to the representative of Pol Pot's defeated regime in Cambodia, Soviet Delegate Mikhail Kharlamov stalked out. He was followed moments later by the Czechoslovak delegation. Kharlamov was careful to leave an aide in attendance at the table, but it was the first Soviet walkout from the Security Council since the Korean...
Hanoi's leaders have often boasted to sympathetic foreign visitors that the Vietnamese people were willing to "suffer with dedication." Last week truckloads of war-wounded and dead returning from the Chinese border and from Cambodia testified that the suffering was far from over. One unanswered, and perhaps unanswerable, question is how dedicated the 51 million citizens of the Vietnamese Socialist Republic remain to a leadership that has been unable to create a stable or prosperous country even after four years of relative peace...
...nonexistent, and spare parts for bicycles are in short supply. "There is a great deal of unhappiness," says a Hanoi-based diplomat. "People are starting to complain privately. One of the whispered questions heard most often is an ironic one: 'What the hell are we doing in Cambodia...