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Emerging as a seemingly irreconcilable difference was the future role of the Khmer Rouge, the strongest of three resistance groups fighting the Vietnamese and the pro-Hanoi government in Cambodia. The resistance is armed by China and led by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, a noncommunist who believes having the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh during an interim period leading to elections would be better than fighting them in the jungles...
Qian called for the Vietnamese troop withdrawal under international supervision to be followed by a fourparty interim government headed by Sihanouk and including the Khmer Rouge...
...atmosphere in the conference room is one of optimism. There is a strong current toward a solution," Sihanouk told reporters...
...Sihanouk singled out China as the linchpin...
Reflecting his fragile alliance with the Khmer Rouge, Sihanouk pointed to the communist ultras as a major stumbling block to peace and reminded journalists that they killed five of his children and 14 grandchildren during their reign of terror...