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...technically they are not children of war?not of war as it is fought in Belfast, Nahariya, Ramallah, Beirut, or in the jungles outside Phnom-Penh. There are no gun battles or street riots in Viet Nam any more. One side has won, one has lost; and the children of the losers have the choice of "re-education," hunger or the sea. The children of Viet Nam have known war, and they have also known the consequences of war. They thus offer an opportunity to pose the one question that has been hovering over all these children, which...
...fatigues for pinstripe suits, he evolved into a democrat and statesman. He abolished press censorship, hiked the minimum wage, offered amnesty to Communist insurgents and organized free elections under a new constitution. He also pulled off a tricky diplomatic balancing act, improving relations with Communist neighbors in Hanoi and Phnom-Penh while strengthening Thailand's ties with Washington...
...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...
...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. One theory to explain why China did not back the ASEAN proposal was that it wants to keep on bleeding Viet Nam and the Soviet...
...including National Security Adviser Richard Allen, the Secretary hoped to build a consensus between Washington and Peking on the two countries' shared wariness of the Soviet Union. Haig wanted to discuss the possibility of U.S. support for a united front in Cambodia against the Vietnamese-backed regime in Phnom-Penh. He also wished to explore the feasibility of cooperating with the Chinese in supplying arms to the rebel forces in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. The challenge Haig faced was a delicate one: moving toward greater rapprochement with Peking while steering clear of a formal alliance that would rattle the cage...