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Some diplomatic sources feel that Viet Nam's latest concession may be intended to deflect further U.S. criticism of its attacks on Khmer resistance camps in neighboring Kampuchea. Laos' accommodating attitude may be in response to recent U.S. overtures, including an American shipment in December of 5,000 tons of rice to alleviate the effects of a poor Laotian harvest. But no major breakthrough of the M.I.A. problem in Laos or Viet Nam seems near. "The timing has made everyone open their eyes," says one U.S. official in Bangkok. "But nothing has happened that hasn't been in the works...
...days after the big push kicked off, the Vietnamese had achieved their objectives, driving the Khmer Rouge from their most important base area; Western diplomats in Bangkok called it Viet Nam's greatest victory in its six- year-old war in Kampuchea. More than 40,000 civilians normally under Khmer Rouge control spilled into Thailand, some 25 miles south of the camps holding 60,000 refugees who had fled earlier in the assault when the Vietnamese rolled over non-Communist resistance units. Khmer Rouge guerrillas who had fought around Phnom Malai began to filter in the opposite direction, deeper into...
...lightly armed Kampuchean resistance fighters and gain control of a mountainous guerrilla fastness known as Phnom Malai. Two and a half months into this year's dry-season offensive, the Vietnamese had decided to move decisively against the most resilient resistance group of all, the remnants of the Khmer Rouge, who ran Kampuchea until Viet Nam's 1978 invasion and the installation of a puppet regime in Phnom Penh, the capital...
...rolling offensive, the Vietnamese army has been hammering away at the Kampuchean resistance. Last week Hanoi's forces laid siege to a key guerrilla redoubt in the Phnom Malai mountains. The Vietnamese fielded an estimated 36,000 infantrymen backed by artillery and armor against some 17,000 lightly armed Khmer Rouge fighters...
...response to the Khmer Rouge's deteriorating situation, five members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines), which backs the Kampuchean resistance, demanded that the Soviet Union curtail its military aid to Viet Nam, estimated at $6 million a day. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the nominal head of the resistance coalition government, warned that China, which invaded Viet Nam in 1979, would teach the Vietnamese "a second lesson" if the guerrillas are pushed to the wall...