Word: kampuchea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last week Hanoi took a step that may not only lighten the burden on a desperately ailing economy but also make Viet Nam less of a pariah in Southeast Asia. The government announced that by the end of the year it would withdraw 50,000 Vietnamese troops from neighboring Kampuchea as part of a total, phased pullout of 120,000 troops...
...announcement was welcomed by the Soviet Union, which backs Hanoi with an estimated $1 billion a year in aid but is unhappy with Viet Nam's mismanagement. Disengagement from Kampuchea could also improve Hanoi's chilly relations with China, which supports Kampuchean resistance forces, including the once dreaded Khmer Rouge, that have been fighting the Vietnamese. Eventually, the U.S. may feel more disposed to endorse Hanoi's requests for Western assistance. Not everybody will be pleased, however. Some Kampucheans fear that the Khmer Rouge, who ruled with murderous intensity in Phnom Penh until Vietnamese forces drove them...
There will be few fireworks over what summiteers call "regional issues." Besides its Afghan pullout, the Kremlin is eager to wind down other conflicts that are a drain on its treasury, particularly those in Angola, Ethiopia and Kampuchea. In the area of humanitarian concerns, U.S. complaints are likely to be pro forma. Jewish emigration, one barometer of Moscow's human rights record, is now high. In April, 1,086 Soviet Jews emigrated, the biggest monthly total since...
...while, the Soviets seemed to be winning almost everywhere. From Kampuchea in Southeast Asia to Angola and Ethiopia in Africa to Nicaragua in Latin America, Kremlin-backed or Kremlin-installed regimes had an ominous look of permanence. After all, Soviet power, once entrenched beyond its own borders, had never allowed itself to be dislodged by local resistance. There was no reason to think Afghanistan would be different. Quite the contrary, tucked up against the soft underbelly of Soviet Central Asia, that benighted country seemed to have become virtually a 16th republic of the U.S.S.R...
...Sokolov has been doing his best to fan opposition to the strategically crucial U.S. naval and air bases in the Philippines. But Soviet diplomacy will not fare well in Beijing and with ASEAN so long as the Kremlin's ally in the area, Viet Nam, is hunkered down in Kampuchea and intimidating other neighbors with its bloated military power. So the Kremlin's Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia, Igor Rogochev, another polished, new-breed diplomat, has been putting out quiet but unmistakable signals to officials in Hanoi that the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan might provide a "model" for the Vietnamese...