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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...
...centered on a single word: divestiture. That technical term, meaning the forced sale of stock or other assets, ordinarily arouses emotions only among antitrust lawyers. But as applied to U.S. relations with South Africa, it has set off one of the most passionate and confused debates since the Viet Nam War. The issues: Should American companies be pressured to sell or close their operations in the land of apartheid? And should U.S. universities, pension funds, local governments and other groups dump their stock in companies that refuse...
Earlier, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach also proposed an end to Viet Nam's six-year occupation of Kampuchea, suggesting negotiated power sharing between Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Kampuchea's former head of state, and the Hanoi-backed regime of Heng Samrin. This could work, said Thach, only after a retreat into exile could be arranged for Pol Pot, the notorious Communist leader of Kampuchea's Khmer Rouge...
Although U.S. officials were pleased by Hanoi's pledge to return American MIAs, 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...
...words belong to Paul Booth, a former Army officer fragged by one of his own men in Viet Nam. He is mean-spirited and abusive. His wife Liz is an asthmatic heiress whose money is tied up in a complex trust fund. She is also the captive audience of a talky geologist named McCandless, who has rented his house to the Booths...