Word: non-communist
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...fall of 1936, it appeared the war would be a triumph both for the Republic and for the idea of the popular front For the first time, communists were participating in a non-communist government. The anarchists, who had broad support among the lower classes, had finally consented to join the coalition, and were more importantly sending troops to fight the Fascists. Everything had taken a turn for the better, so it seemed. But in an attempt to hold the continued support of the bourgeoisie, the ruling group pleaded the necessity for "iron discipline" on the home front, and thus...
...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 Kampuchea, to join some 30,000 of their comrades who are engaging the Vietnamese in hit-and-run warfare...
...seizure of Phnom Malai cemented Vietnamese control over a key part of the frontier region, which until November provided a zone of sanctuary for the coalition of 60,000 Communist and non-Communist guerrillas who are carrying on the fight against Hanoi. The Vietnamese also dealt a sharp blow to the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge's reputation for toughness. A mere 48 hours before the Vietnamese struck, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the anti-Hanoi coalition's nominal head, had paid a visit to Phnom Malai to announce support from a scattering of Third World nations. During Sihanouk's visit, Khieu Samphan...
Despite the Vietnamese onslaught, though, signs of an end to the fighting are nowhere to be seen, as the Cambodian people remain caught in a complex web of ages-old feuding and geopolitical intrigue. Inside the country, the fighting is at a standstill, analysts believe, as the leading non-communist group, the Khmer People's National Liberation Front (now at about 15,000 guerrillas) gains in strength, while the reviled Khmer Rouge, with its 30,000 fighters, continues to harass the Vietnamese occupiers...
...easiest thing we could do would be to provide arms to the non-communist group struggling against the Vietnamese under the direction of former Cambodian premier Son Sann. He has made numerous--and so far unsuccessful--trips to the United States to raise support for his entirely worthwhile cause. Not only would such a move make sense morally, it would make sense strategically, because it would give Son Sann's group greater leverage in its marriage of convenience with the Khmer Rouge and former head of state, Prince Sihanouk. Given the Administration's rhetoric about fighting communism, it is hard...