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...Khmer Rouge, who are supported by China, and at a smaller guerrilla group loyal to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the former head of state. But Viet Nam's primary target appears to be the non-Communist Khmer People's National Liberation Front. This group, led by onetime Prime Minister Son Sann, is supported by the U.S. and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. It has formed a loose coalition with the Khmer Rouge and the Sihanouk forces, aimed at overthrowing the Heng Samrin regime and driving out the Vietnamese. Though the resistance organizations, fielding an estimated 50,000 lightly equipped fighters...
...Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who was deposed in 1970. The next Vietnamese target will probably be the camps of Ban Sangae and Nong Samet, which house 96,000 civilians and serve as a center for the Khmer People's National Liberation Front. That group is led by Son Sann, 71, who is perhaps Kampuchea's least-tarnished and therefore (to the Vietnamese) most threatening nationalist leader...
...Khmer Rouge's reluctant inter national patrons have long sought a more acceptable alternative to what is at best the lesser of two evils in Cambodia. Chi na has quietly prodded the Khmer Rouge to link up with anti-Communist resistance forces led by Son Sann, a 70-year-old for mer Prime Minister. Simultaneously, in a stunning reversal, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 58, who has lived in exile in China and North Korea since he was initially overthrown in 1970, agreed to make peace with the Khmer Rouge and lead a united front against the Vietnamese...
...outside, could dislodge the Vietnamese. In addition, even if an alliance of convenience were eventually to triumph over the Vietnamese forces in the country, which are estimated at 200,000, there is the danger that Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge might then turn its guns against Son Sann and Sihanouk. Moreover, not even the firm anti-Soviet predisposition of the Reagan Administration is likely to dispel American reluctance to get involved in another conflict with the Vietnamese...
...lowans contributed $250,000. On Christmas Eve a ten-truck convoy loaded with rice, salted fish, soybeans, sugar and medical supplies left Bangkok for the Thai-Cambodian border. On Christmas Day, William Simbro, a reporter for the Des Moines Register, met in a jungle clearing with representatives from Sok Sann, a refugee settlement just inside Cambodia, and presented them with some surgical instruments. The rest of the supplies reached Sok Sann last week...