Word: kampuchean
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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...