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Article: Cambodia's Leaders Face Turbulent Future;Hanoi's Pullout Raises Specter of Chaos
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- The Washington Post
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- June 4, 1988
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The Soviet Union's initial troop withdrawals from Afghanistan,
and Vietnam's surprise announcement that it will pull 50,000 of its
forces from Cambodia this year, have prompted fresh optimism among
analysts that after nearly 10 years Hanoi is sincere about wanting to
end its costly occupation of Cambodia.
But the prospect of a unilateral Vietnamese withdrawal, promised
by Hanoi to be completed in 1990, has raised new fears that Hanoi
might leave behind a politically chaotic and potentially bloody
situation with competing Cambodian armies battling to control
territory-with the ultimate beneficiary being the widely reviled
Khmer Rouge communists.
Since Vietnam invaded Cambodia in December ...