Word: kampuchea
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...throngs in Soviet-made jeeps, followed by buses carrying other officers and enlisted men. At the airport, a team of Cambodian classical dancers showered fragrant white flowers on the departing officers and soldiers, who boarded planes and helicopters bound for Ho Chi Minh City. After almost ten years in Kampuchea, the Vietnamese army was officially going home...
...Middle East tour last week, Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno became the first Japanese Cabinet minister to visit Israel; heavily dependent on oil imports, Japan had long snubbed Israel to keep favor with the Arab states. In early June the Japanese offered to mediate a Vietnamese withdrawal from Kampuchea...
...Last week Hanoi took a step that may not only lighten the burden on a desperately ailing economy but also make Viet Nam less of a pariah in Southeast Asia. The government announced that by the end of the year it would withdraw 50,000 Vietnamese troops from neighboring Kampuchea as part of a total, phased pullout of 120,000 troops...
...announcement was welcomed by the Soviet Union, which backs Hanoi with an estimated $1 billion a year in aid but is unhappy with Viet Nam's mismanagement. Disengagement from Kampuchea could also improve Hanoi's chilly relations with China, which supports Kampuchean resistance forces, including the once dreaded Khmer Rouge, that have been fighting the Vietnamese. Eventually, the U.S. may feel more disposed to endorse Hanoi's requests for Western assistance. Not everybody will be pleased, however. Some Kampucheans fear that the Khmer Rouge, who ruled with murderous intensity in Phnom Penh until Vietnamese forces drove them...
There will be few fireworks over what summiteers call "regional issues." Besides its Afghan pullout, the Kremlin is eager to wind down other conflicts that are a drain on its treasury, particularly those in Angola, Ethiopia and Kampuchea. In the area of humanitarian concerns, U.S. complaints are likely to be pro forma. Jewish emigration, one barometer of Moscow's human rights record, is now high. In April, 1,086 Soviet Jews emigrated, the biggest monthly total since...