Word: kampuchea
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...years after its moment of glory, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam has little else to cheer about. Its army, the world's fourth largest (1.2 million men), remains at war and on alert: 160,000 of its troops are trying to subdue resistance fighters in neighboring Kampuchea, while another 650,000 men keep an uneasy peace along the Chinese border. The relaxed, Westward-looking laissez-faire of the South has yet to be completely assimilated within the socialist puritanism of the North. And despite $2 billion in aid from the Soviet Union each year, Viet Nam remains desperately poor...
...during the decade of involvement than all combatants did in World War II, the panelists all said the country's current dire straits stem from government mismanagement. The current regime--which is closely allied with the Soviet Union adn Cuba--has devoted much of its resources toward fighting neighboring Kampuchea and securing itself against a possible Chinese invasion...
...Lyall Breckon, director of the Office of Vietnam, Laos, and Kampuchea Affairs of the Department of State, said th U.S. hopes to see more people be allowed to emigrate legally from Vietnam. He said the U.S. also wants Vietnam to make good on its promise last year to release people from reeducation camps
...Kampuchea, formerly known as Cambodia, came under the control of a Communist group, the Khmer Rouge, in 1975 after a five-year civil war. Their leader, Pol Pot, turned the country into a charnel house by directing a murderous drive to eliminate his opponents. Some 2 million people were killed. Three years later Vietnamese forces, backed by the Soviet Union, swept through the country, setting up a puppet government that both the U.S. and the U.N. refuse to recognize. In addition to the Khmer Rouge, whose 35,000 guerrillas are supported by China, the armed opposition to the current regime...
...Asian Nations, which includes Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines. Pressure on the Administration to provide U.S. aid has been spearheaded by Congressman Stephen Solarz, a New York Democrat. A strong foe of funding the contras in Nicaragua, Solarz considers the two non-Communist resistance groups in Kampuchea the real "freedom fighters." He helped persuade the House Foreign Affairs Committee to recommend $5 million in aid to those groups...