The World - News from Aug. 15, 1989

A U.N. fact-finding team working on a Cambodian peace plan arrived in Bangkok to visit guerrilla bases on Thailand’s side of the border. The 15-member group, mostly military specialists, spent a week in Cambodia to determine what would be needed to form an international body to monitor a Vietnamese troop pullout and a truce. One team member said that it may require 120 personnel to monitor the pullout and about 6,000 to form a peacekeeping force. Members of the team said that the issue of who should occupy Cambodia’s seat in the United Nations, a major stumbling block, may soon be resolved, with the Vietnamese-installed Phnom Penh government showing more flexibility.