The World - News from Feb. 3, 1985
About 400 Vietnamese troops covered by artillery barrages seized two Cambodian outposts of the Khmer Rouge guerrillas, military officers in neighboring Thailand reported. They said the guerrillas, meanwhile, attacked a Vietnamese base and supply line to slow the buildup of Vietnamese forces trying to wipe them out. More than 40 Khmer Rouge have been killed and 80 wounded in the past week of stepped-up Vietnamese attacks, Thai sources said. The Khmer Rouge is the strongest of the three Cambodian factions in the insurgent coalition.
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