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Shultz's trip coincided with a series of diplomatic initiatives by Viet Nam. Shortly before the House vote on aid to Kampuchean resistance fighters, Hanoi promised to return the remains of 26 U.S. servicemen listed as missing in action in Viet Nam. In addition, Viet Nam said it would assist the U.S. in accounting for an estimated 2,464 other missing Americans...
...could have been a politician on a campaign swing. When U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz stepped from a helicopter at a refugee camp in Thailand six miles from the Kampuchean border last week, he was greeted by some 55,000 cheering Kampucheans waving American flags and carrying signs that read, GOD BLESS AMERICA and PLEASE RESCUE CAMBODIA. The normally impassive Secretary called the visit "a stirring experience." But Shultz, who stopped at the camp during a 13-day trip through Asia, remained wary of a U.S. commitment to Kampucheans fighting 160,000 Vietnamese troops occupying their country. Although...
...they doubted that Viet Nam was signaling a fundamental shift in policy. The Thach proposal shrewdly preceded the annual conference of the non-Communist Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where ASEAN foreign ministers groped for ways to bring about talks between Viet Nam and the Kampuchean insurgents. A plan calling for negotiations with a Vietnamese delegation that might include representatives of the Heng Samrin regime won the backing of resistance fighters, ASEAN nations and the U.S. But Viet Nam rejected the idea. One Vietnamese diplomat in Malaysia told TIME, "The proposal is a backward step...
...avert that catastrophe, the U.S. should use its influence with China and Thailand not just to cut off arms to the Khmer Rouge but also to shut down their base camps on the Thai side of the Kampuchean border, ferret out and seize their arms caches, round up their most villainous leaders and arrange for their peaceful retirement to, say, rural North Korea...
Fear of the Khmer Rouge still rules much of the Kampuchean countryside, where the rebel fighters battle the improving army of the People's Republic. Around Chhun Kiri, 65 miles southwest of Phnom Penh, the Khmer Rouge has stepped up its "war of the villages." At a nearby hospital lay Pen Kea, 40, his leg injured in a guerrilla attack. "The Khmer Rouge comes every three nights," he said. "You have got to be afraid of them...