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...Rural Mobile Patrol Unit. Yet hardly had the understaffed and poorly equipped force entered the field than it was shadowed by rumors--all of which it denies--that it was under-reporting drug seizures, making wrongful arrests and openly filching money and goods from peasant homes. In retaliation, guerrilla-directed campesinos bombed police stations and ambushed drug busters. A score of policemen were killed. As the mutinous spirit quickened, the government of President Fernando Belaunde Terry began to fear that guerrillas might exploit the drug-related troubles even further. Last August the President declared a state of emergency and sent...
...hours, more than 30,000 Vietnamese troops supported by tanks and artillery had launched the final phase of a powerful pincer assault near the Thai border with Kampuchea. Their aim: to brush aside an estimated 10,000 lightly armed Kampuchean resistance fighters and gain control of a mountainous guerrilla fastness known as Phnom Malai. Two and a half months into this year's dry-season offensive, the Vietnamese had decided to move decisively against the most resilient resistance group of all, the remnants of the Khmer Rouge, who ran Kampuchea until Viet Nam's 1978 invasion and the installation...
...seizure of Phnom Malai cemented Vietnamese control over a key part of the frontier region, which until November provided a zone of sanctuary for the coalition of 60,000 Communist and non-Communist guerrillas who are carrying on the fight against Hanoi. The Vietnamese also dealt a sharp blow to the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge's reputation for toughness. A mere 48 hours before the Vietnamese struck, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the anti-Hanoi coalition's nominal head, had paid a visit to Phnom Malai to announce support from a scattering of Third World nations. During Sihanouk's visit, Khieu Samphan...
...policy of violence, intimidation and death has been a historic Kremlin method of quieting opposition, from the assassination of Leon Trotsky to attempts on the lives of foreign figures like Dag Hammarskjold and Anwar Sadat. Soviet ties to guerrilla groups are so well known that the Kalashnikov submachine gun has become the symbol for international terrorism. The U.S.S.R. continues training terrorists within and beyond its borders to subvert stable nations and particularly to feed upon unrest in the Third World...
...past 2 1/2 months, in a rolling offensive, the Vietnamese army has been hammering away at the Kampuchean resistance. Last week Hanoi's forces laid siege to a key guerrilla redoubt in the Phnom Malai mountains. The Vietnamese fielded an estimated 36,000 infantrymen backed by artillery and armor against some 17,000 lightly armed Khmer Rouge fighters...