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...Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention-both treaties have been signed by Moscow-by engaging in chemical warfare. "With every passing day," charged Secretary of State Alexander Haig in February, "we get more incontrovertible evidence of the use of mycotoxins [fungal poisons] in Afghanistan, Laos and Kampuchea [Cambodia] . . . There is no question in our minds that such weapons have been and are continuing to be used...
...rise of the Common Market and the establishment of Israel and say armageddon approacheth, an era of two of American progressive could simply watch the declining rate of profit and know that the revolution was on its way. No more, the generation that knows the truth about Kampuchea and EI Salvador, Poland and Guatemala, the Soviet Union and South Africa, must start to think anew unless it wants simply to be choosing the better of two evils at every turn...
Cambodia experts have picked up numerous errors of fact. Samples: Phnom Malai is a mountain range, not the capital city of Democratic Kampuchea; the Khmer Rouge do not put poison on their punji sticks; Comrade Kanika, who is described by Jones as "a wiry man with short gray hair," is actually a woman-and has represented the Cambodians in Paris for several years...
Without continued high levels of humanitarian aid to Kampuchea, Viet Nam will be hard pressed to maintain its presence there. Hanoi is in debt for $3 billion in foreign currency, almost half from non-Communist countries. Thus when those donor nations meet this week they will be confronted by a difficult moral and political choice: either to provide aid to Kampuchea and risk subsidizing the communization of the Khmer people, or to stop it and risk losing thousands of innocent lives...
Though Soviet-Vietnamese relation are basically solid, there are signs of stress. A Soviet request last June to assume management of Vietnamese development projects was denied. A more serious conflict occurred in December when the Vietnamese booted Pen Sovan, general secretary of Kampuchea's Communist Party, from the government, apparently for trying to chart a political course independent of Viet Nam. The Soviet Ambassador in Hanoi made his displeasure known at the government New Year's party by refusing to take his designated seat next to Foreign Minister Hun Sen. A long, embarrassing silence followed, until a quick...