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...current military strength of the Khmer Rouge, largest of the three guerrilla groups (the others are Sihanouk's Nationalist Army and former Premier Son Sann's Khmer People's National Liberation Front), is in dispute. Soviet and Vietnamese military advisers insist that the Kampuchean armed forces can contain the threat, but Western analysts have their doubts. Kampuchea's 30,000-man regular army and the 100,000 irregulars assigned to defend their country are largely untested. Many Kampucheans fear that once the Vietnamese draw down their forces, the Khmer Rouge may succeed in grabbing power once more...
...swept through the country, setting up a puppet government that both the U.S. and the U.N. refuse to recognize. In addition to the Khmer Rouge, whose 35,000 guerrillas are supported by China, the armed opposition to the current regime includes two non-Communist groups: one led by Son Sann, the other led in absentia by the exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk...
...Sann and Prince Norodom Ranariddh, son of Prince Sihanouk, traveled to Washington last week to seek Administration approval for such an appropriation. Said Son Sann after meeting with Secretary of State George Shultz: "I am sure the U.S. will come to our aid. I ask for assistance, not U.S. troops." Shultz reportedly made no commitments, but Son Sann said that he was assured by the Secretary that he was "among friends...
...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...
This year's Vietnamese drive has differed from earlier campaigns in both its relative ferocity and its single-minded concentration on the Khmer Front component of the Kampuchean resistance. With an estimated 12,000 fighters led by onetime Prime Minister Son Sann, the front is linked in a loose alliance with some 40,000 guerrillas of the Communist Khmer Rouge, backed by China, and 5,000 soldiers loyal to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Kampuchea's former head of state. The guerrilla forces are no match for the Vietnamese, who maintain approximately 160,000 troops in Kampuchea and can bring in heavy...