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...expresses "profound gratitude" over the case-fire agreement, calls for the continued withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam, and urges an end to military actions in Laos and Cambodia...
...Cambodia's situation is even more intricate. The 40,000-strong Khmer insurgents, according to U.S. State Department officials, control more than 50% of the land and 40% of the population (Prince Sihanouk claims a far higher figure of 70% of the population). The insurgents are a disparate coalition of Communists, nationalists, dissidents and pro-Sihanouk loyalists. Originally armed by Hanoi, the Khmer Rouge is now largely independent of the North Vietnamese. In the more than two years since Cambodia was invaded by Saigon's forces and brought into the war. the rebels have proved themselves at least...
...peace comes to South Viet Nam, can it be far behind in Laos and Cambodia? The Paris agreement stipulated that all foreign troops would withdraw from the territory of the two countries, but it did not say when. They must first negotiate their own differences before they can extricate themselves from a war in which they were involuntarily involved. Last week government and Communist forces in both countries appeared to be inching toward a cease-fire and perhaps even peace...
...Cambodia, Premier Lon Nol declared a unilateral halt to offensive operations against the Communists. Exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, during a visit to Hanoi, pledged that the forces he nominally heads would not start major actions either. The North Vietnamese have only tenuous control of the native Khmer Rouge, and would have a hard time making an agreement stick. But a defacto cease-fire would give the Cambodians a chance to work out their own arrangement...
Feelers. The Foreign Ministers of the five members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)* will meet in a special session in Kuala Lumpur next week. Among other matters on their agenda is whether and how the organization should expand to include Burma, Cambodia, Laos and the two Viet Nams. South Korean diplomats hint that they will not only accelerate their plodding discussions with Pyongyang on reunification but also put out diplomatic feelers to Moscow and Peking...