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...seven-man United Nations team flew into Bangkok last week to investigate one of the more controversial issues to come before the international organization: accusations that the Soviet Union, through its ally Viet Nam, has for the past six years been waging chemical warfare in Cambodia and Laos...
Despite mounting evidence that Viet Nam is using Soviet chemicals in its battle against anti-Communist insurgents in Laos and Cambodia, there has been little international outcry. A chief culprit, U.S. State Department officials complain, is the U.N., which had been conspicuously reluctant to investigate the U.S. charges vigorously. In a speech in West Berlin last year, then Secretary of State Alexander Haig charged the Soviets and their allies with violating the 1925 Geneva Protocol on chemical warfare and the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. One month after Haig's charge in West Berlin, the first U.N. team...
...only ones involved." But Administration officials hinted later that if President Reagan is convinced that a stronger force is needed in order to solve Lebanon's current problems, he would probably be willing to take the risk. Said one White House aide: "The President believes the 'Viet Nam syndrome' has put ridiculous restraints on peace keeping, even when it is in American interests. He is disturbed at the reluctance to use American military force when it can be a useful adjunct of our foreign policy." The President realizes there will be some opposition, says the aide...
...concern about Ilyichev's return to Peking. Deng said that "no real and fundamental improvement in Sino-Soviet relations" was possible until the U.S.S.R. had met three conditions. The Soviets must pull out of Afghanistan, which shares a narrow border with China. Moscow must end its support for Viet Nam's military takeover of Cambodia. Indochina is the soft underbelly of the P.R.C. Peking sees the Hanoi regime as threatening enough in its own right, all the more so since it is an ally of the U.S.S.R. Finally, the Soviets must withdraw their divisions from Mongolia and reduce...
Johnson's mentor and benefactor, flourished throughout L.B.J.'s career and even after Alice finally married Marsh, 24 years her senior. Until Viet Nam. She hated Johnson's obsession with the war and ended their relationship. Though L.B.J. often boasted of his later infidelities, he never discussed his affair with Glass, who died in 1976, perhaps out of deference to the lady's reputation, perhaps to that of Marsh's political and financial might. It was a relationship, says Caro, that "juts out of the landscape of Johnson's life...