The World - News from June 13, 1989
Saying it wants to prevent the return to power of the Khmer Rouge, the Bush Administration called for stepped-up military aid to the non-Communist forces in Cambodia. The United States has been sending about $7 million a year in covert aid to a guerrilla coalition headed by Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Robert Kimmitt, undersecretary of state for political affairs, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the increased aid would strengthen Sihanouk’s position in negotiations next month on a Vietnamese withdrawal from Cambodia as well as deter attacks by the Khmer Rouge on his forces.
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