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...attack was carefully timed and meticulously planned. Shortly after midnight under a full moon, small-arms fire began to crackle around the Kampuchean refugee camp and guerrilla base known as Ampil, hard by the border with Thailand. The shooting eventually died away, only to be replaced, just after sunrise, by a thunderous artillery barrage. Plumes of smoke rose from the dusty thatch-and- bamboo compound as heavy Vietnamese guns poured thousands of rounds into the area--"a huge rumbling," as one witness described it, "an explosion not every minute but every second." A dozen Soviet-built T-54 tanks...
...exports capital in the form of loans and grants to its neighbors in the Pacific region. The Philippines, staggering under a $26 billion foreign debt and deep in recession, received a grant of about $240 million from the Japanese government three months ago. Last July the Japanese government gave Thailand loans and grants worth about $300 million. Japan hopes that economic aid will strengthen its neighbors and increase trade and prosperity throughout the whole Pacific region...
Asian countries, along with the U.S. and Western Europe, complain bitterly that Japan does not buy enough of their products. The Japanese piled up trade surpluses last year of about $1.7 billion with Thailand and $6 billion with Singapore. Student protesters in Thailand have circulated letters to their countrymen with a blunt warning: "Do not be a slave to Japanese goods." In his August speech, Malaysia's Mahathir noted that 84% of his nation's exports to Japan consisted of oil, wood, tin and other raw materials. Said he: "We cannot and will not remain merely hewers of wood...
...hour after midnight on Christmas morning, the onslaught began. Residents of Rithysen (pop. 66,000), a Kampuchean refugee camp and guerrilla base near the country's border with Thailand, were awakened by the sound of artillery and mortar shells exploding in and around their sprawling bamboo village. By 7 a.m. an estimated 1,000 Vietnamese infantrymen, led by armored vehicles, had fought their way into Rithysen (also known as Nong Samet), about 140 miles east of Bangkok. Their aim: to destroy the camp and other centers of opposition to the Viet Nam-backed Kampuchean government of Heng Samrin...
...their Christmas Day offensive, the Vietnamese attacked three camps almost simultaneously, sending tens of thousands of Kampucheans fleeing into Thailand. The resistance forces staged a counterattack, though they were no match for the opposing Vietnamese troops. The Vietnamese attacks were denounced as "contemptible" by the U.S. and as "cruel and savage" by Thailand, which put its border forces on full alert. As in the past, the offensive is likely to continue until the monsoon returns in late spring. This time, however, the Vietnamese are evidently hoping to end their annual campaign in a far stronger position than in previous years...