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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some observers believe may be the death throes of the Khmers as a people. A nation that once numbered between 7 million and 8 million people is now believed to total only 4 million to 5 million. Much of the country's farm land has been devastated by war, and refugees report that the Vietnamese forces are shipping to their own country what little rice is now being grown in Cambodia. French doctors who recently visited the country fear that it could be swept by bubonic plague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: A Rescue Plan at Last | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...improve the situation," says one Western ambassador in Bangkok. But who can apply that pressure? The U.S. does not have diplomatic relations with Hanoi-a fact that some observers believe pushed Viet Nam even further into Moscow's orbit. China, of course, has just fought a war with Viet Nam, while Moscow openly supports Hanoi's attempt to subdue Cambodia, The worldwide outcry over the refugees has only just begun to have an effect on Hanoi-but as for getting out of Cambodia, the Vietnamese so far have been adamant. Ironically, it is Politburo Member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: A Rescue Plan at Last | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...there is a vulnerable domino in Southeast Asia, it is Thailand. Except for a friendly southern border with Malaysia, Thailand is surrounded by enemies, new and old: Cambodia, Laos and Burma. Above all, the Thais fear the Vietnamese. Hanoi has repeatedly warned Bangkok to stay neutral in the Cambodia war, and complained that Pol Pot forces are being harbored in the crowded refugee camps. Well aware that the Vietnamese have ten divisions arrayed along the Thailand-Cambodia frontier, China has made both public and private gestures of support for Bangkok, including the offer of troops in case of invasion. Such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: A Rescue Plan at Last | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...retired army general who came to power in a 1977 army coup, Kriangsak has found it hard to manage a largely agricultural economy that is plagued by bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption. He has also had to give a great deal of his attention to the threat posed by war at Thailand's doorstep, and the persistence of Communist insurgency, especially in the south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: A Rescue Plan at Last | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

Nevertheless, security is the Premier's main concern, as he explained last week in an interview with TIME'S Hong Kong bureau chief Marsh Clark and correspondent David DeVoss: "Close to our borders there is a full-scale war. We have Communist subversion within the country. Added to that there is the refugee problem that undermines our stability. We need arms to preserve peace. Tell the U.S. Congress to come to Thailand to see the situation. Giving us a foreign military sales credit of $24 million is not enough. Thailand faces a war situation. It deserves a higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: A Rescue Plan at Last | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

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