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...last week, Secretary Haig charged that "potent mycotoxins," superpoisons derived from grain molds and known to be produced by the Soviets, were found in the region. Experts at the State Department said that the toxins were isolated on a leaf from Cambodia, where the Soviet-backed government is fighting Khmer insurgents...
...costly adventure. ASEAN introduced a plan designed to dispel Hanoi's fear that its enemy, China, might attempt to seize Cambodia if Viet Nam withdrew from the country. The proposal called for disarming all forces contending for power in Cambodia, including 30,000 to 40,000 Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge guerrillas. A neutral, interim government under U.N. supervision would then be established to organize free elections...
...Phnom-Penh, a Cambodian official scoffed at the idea of an effective U.N. peace-keeping force. In Moscow, TASS characterized the conference as a "provocative farce." Peking was outraged at the prospect of disarming the Khmer Rouge. At the U.N., the plan was opposed by Han Nianlong, China's acting Foreign Minister, who warned about Vietnamese "duplicity." At week's end a vague compromise plan was adopted that called for "appropriate arrangements" to ensure that armed Cambodian factions would not be able to prevent or disrupt elections-if any should ever occur...
...also the competing strategic interests of China and the Soviet Union. The Soviets have been subsidizing Hanoi at a cost of $3 million to $6 million a day since 1979, after the Vietnamese ousted the Peking-supported Pol Pot government from Cambodia. In turn, the Chinese have armed the Khmer Rouge guerrillas, who have been harrying Hanoi's occupying army. Ultimately, Peking seeks to restore the Pol Pot regime to power in Phnom-Penh in spite of the fact that his Communist regime slaughtered an estimated 3 million Cambodians during a reign of terror that lasted nearly four years...
...same time, the U.S. has joined China and ASEAN in promoting a united front of the various forces in Cambodia fighting the Vietnamese. Since the main component would be Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, the Reagan Administration is in the anomalous position of backing, however obliquely, Communist combat forces. Says a senior State Department official: "We would be willing to provide political and psychological assistance, but we are not committed to military...