Word: kampuchea
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Each year, when monsoon rains sweep in from the Indian Ocean, three separate guerrilla armies emerge from their sanctuaries to challenge the 180,000 Vietnamese troops who have been occupying Kampuchea since 1979. And each year, when the parched rice paddies sprout nothing but stubble, the Vietnamese seek revenge, rolling out their tanks in an effort to eliminate the 45,000 armed "nationalists" opposed to the Vietnamese-backed government of President Heng Samrin. But this year the Vietnamese have instigated something more than the usual rite of spring. In their most deadly and deliberate offensive yet, they have been training...
...deposed in 1970. The next Vietnamese target will probably be the camps of Ban Sangae and Nong Samet, which house 96,000 civilians and serve as a center for the Khmer People's National Liberation Front. That group is led by Son Sann, 71, who is perhaps Kampuchea's least-tarnished and therefore (to the Vietnamese) most threatening nationalist leader...
...return, the Vietnamese began a diplomatic offensive of their own, accusing Thailand of actively supporting the border rebels and China of supplying them with arms through Thailand. China has always backed the guerrillas in Kampuchea. But while Thailand probably allows China to send arms through Thai territory, it has tried to avoid direct involvement in Kampuchea's strife. Says District Chief Palakorn Suwannarath: "For the past four years we've been plagued by refugees, artillery shelling, black market activities and dislocation of civilians along the border. We get no benefit at all from these undisciplined resistance groups." Whatever...
...stories in advance for clearance. In many repressive countries, the disruption of reporters' telephone calls and telex transmissions occurs mainly in war zones or during revolutions. Among the nations that have disrupted correspondents' communications at least occasionally in the past few years: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Burma, Iran, Kampuchea, Poland, the Sudan and the Soviet Union...
Among the more moderate forces were the leaders of Sri Lanka, Kenya, Pakistan, Singapore, Malaysia, Yugoslavia and Venezuela. Some demanded the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, a retreat of Vietnamese forces from Kampuchea, and the removal of all nuclear weapons from vessels and bases in the Indian Ocean. Said Malaysian Prune Minister Mahathir bin Mohammed: "The Soviet Union claims to champion the cause of the weak and the oppressed, but it had no hesitation about marching into Afghanistan to prop up an unpopular regime." Meanwhile, Cuba's Castro railed against "criminal Yankee imperialism" and new CIA plots...