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...Since the end of World War II, U.S. bases in West Germany have been regarded as "temporary." For years Congress refused to authorize funds to improve them on the ground that it would be a waste of money to maintain facilities that were surely about to be abandoned. The Viet Nam War made maintenance of these bases a secondary concern. After that, improvements were further delayed while diplomats and Army brass tried to persuade the West Germans and NATO to share the cost. West Germany has agreed in principle to offer "host support" but has yet to appropriate a pfennig...
...joins a plan to get Viet Nam out of Cambodia...
...intention to bring Viet Nam to its knees. We only want to bring it to its senses." So declared Singapore's Foreign Minister Suppiah Dhanabalan last week as 93 governments met in a special U.N. session to discuss a complex and contentious problem: how to persuade-or pressure-Viet Nam to pull its 200,000 troops out of Cambodia...
Right from the start, the conference faced one major handicap: the absence of the three principals. Boycotting the session were Viet Nam, which has occupied Cambodia for the past 30 months, and the Soviet Union, which had bankrolled the Vietnamese invasion. Cambodia, whose government was installed by Viet Nam, was not invited...
...Asian Nations (ASEAN)* hoped that the conference would provide what Washington termed a "framework for settlement" and offer some inducements for Hanoi to retreat from its costly adventure. ASEAN introduced a plan designed to dispel Hanoi's fear that its enemy, China, might attempt to seize Cambodia if Viet Nam withdrew from the country. The proposal called for disarming all forces contending for power in Cambodia, including 30,000 to 40,000 Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge guerrillas. A neutral, interim government under U.N. supervision would then be established to organize free elections...