Word: kampuchea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan and his hosts will find more room for agreement on other topics. Many aspects of China's foreign policy coincide with U.S. interests; Washington, for example, approves of Chinese efforts to restrain Viet Nam in Kampuchea and to build stronger ties with Japan. U.S. officials are also heartened by China's attempts to begin talking to South Korea. Says a State Department aide: "They know a new Korean war would be a major disaster for them and for us." Most important, the U.S. and China remain equally suspicious of the Soviet Union. Although Peking and Moscow resumed low-level...
...came at a time of rising concern about the possibility of a chemical arms race. In 1981 the U.S. charged that the Soviets were using chemical warfare against rebels in Afghanistan. By 1983, the U.S. claimed, Soviet-made toxic weapons had killed 10,000 people in Afghanistan, Laos and Kampuchea. The Reagan Administration has asked Congress for money to modernize the U.S. stockpile of toxic weaponry...
...announced last week that Soviet use of toxic gas had dramatically declined. In a report to the United Nations, the State Department said the U.S. could not confirm any chemical warfare by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan last year. It added that Soviet-backed governments in Laos and Kampuchea had used less lethal toxic weapons against local dissidents...
...anti-Soviet alliance. The American military, like that quintessential American character Popeye, was eating spinach and flexing its muscles. In the 1980s the Soviet Union must save scarce resources; split Europe and China from the United States; manage counter in-surgency wars around the world (Afghanistan, Angola, Eritrea, Kampuchea, and (with minimal direct involvement) Nicaragua); and restore their credentials as "natural ally" of Third World causes by pinning the military-imperialist label on the United States...
...December 1978 the Vietnamese launched a massive invasion of Cambodia, by then renamed "Democratic Kampuchea." Cambodians welcomed the conquest of their homeland by their historical neighboring enemy, just as they'd embraced the Khmer Rouge only a few years earlier, Lien credits the Vietnamese with rescuing her from certain death: the flux and confusion accompanying the incursion allowed her and her brothers to escape one night across the reedy, mountainous border into Thailand. Behind in the camp they left a cavernous pit, which Lien had learned was to be a mass grave for the workers...