Word: saids
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...best solution would be the establishment of a United Nations-supervised administration accompanied by a peacekeeping force," said Solarz who chairs a House subcommittee on Asian and Pacific affairs...
...fear is that a political solution that included the Khmer Rouge would let Pol Pot subvert the administration from the inside while attacking it from the outside," said Solarz, referring to the dictator who ruled Cambodia in the mid 1970s...
...Khmer Rouge killed about 600,000 Cambodians--one-sixth of the population--during its rule from 1975-78, said Nayan Chanda, senior associate partner of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978 but has recently withdrawn its troops from the country...
David Lambertson, a State Department official specializing in East Asian and Pacific affairs, said it was U.S. policy to bring about a "comprehensive settlement" of the war by verifing Vietnamese troop withdrawal, eliminating the political power of the Khmer Rouge and letting the Cambodian people determine their future...
...have not been able to get around the impasse of transitional arrangements," said Lambertson. "The plan by Rep. Solarz could provide a way around that impasse...