NATION AND WORLD
University Dally Kansan, February 21. 1985
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Vietnam troops hunt for Cambodia rebels
By United Press International
ARANYAPRATIET, Thailand — Vietnamese troops spilled into Thailand yesterday hunting for Cambodian guerrillas, who fought with a 5-mile corridor used by the rebels to crossing into their war-torn homeland.
One Thai officer was reported killed in the Vietnamese incursion, which came as the Hanoi-installed regime in Phenom Penh issued fresh warnings it would not tolerate Cambodian rebel bases in Thailand.
Thai officials said that during the fighting, 36 Vietnamese troops tried to cross into Thailand in the largest such defection since Hanoi began its dry season offensive in November to rebel bases in western Cambodia.
The 36 were waiting just inside Cambodia as Thailand considered granting them temporary asylum, the Thai military said.
FIGHTING RAGED ALONG a 5-mile front stretching from an area opposite the Thai village of Klong Nam Sai to the Phnom Malai mountains, where the Khmer Rouge rebels maintained their headquarters until it fell to Vietnam last week. The military sources said.
An estimated 600 Khmer Rouge are in the area, one of the largest concentrations remaining along the border since Vietnam completed its sweep of resistance bases with the capture of Phnom Malai, about 10 miles southwest of the key Thai border town of Anarayaprathe.
Vietnamese control of the front would block a key route used by the Khmer Rouge to cross into Cambodia from Thailand and hamper rebel efforts to disrupt Vietnam's supply and communication lines, military observers said.
The communist Khmer Rouge are the strongest of three groups joined in a U.N.-recognized government, and they are the only Vietnamese troops from Cambodia.
THE KHMER ROUGE were removed from power by Vietnamese troops in 1979 after a brutal three-year war that more than 1 million Cambodians died.
Thai military chief Arthit Khamlang-ek said an undetermined number of Vietnamese troops had been into Thailand in Buriram province.
He said the Vietnamese were hunting for Khmer Rouge fighters, many of whom fled into Thailand when Phnom Malai fell.
In a strong warning, the Hanoi-
installed regime of Cambodia said it
would not tolerate the continued use
of soil for Cambodian rebel
bases.
SKP, the Official Cambodian news agency, said Thai officials were playing with fire by giving sanctuary to a girl accused of having denied助ing the Khmer Rouge.
In Jakarta, Pham Binh, director of the Vietnamese Institute of International Relations, said the elimination of the essential, crucial parts of his office. Rouge was a precondition to the withdrawal of Vietnam from Cambodia.
China alerts troops near Vietnam border
By United Press International
PEKING — Chim said yesterday that its troops were stepping up their state of alert along the Vietnamese border because Hanoi has ignored Peking's warnings to provocations across the frontier.
President Li Xianian, in a Lunar New Year speech at Peking's Great Hall of the People, said Chinese border forces in the southern Yunnan and Guangxi provinces had been advised to prepare to stop Vietnamese aggression.
THE WARNING CAME two days after Communist Party Chairman Hu Yaobang was quoted as saying China was determined to remove the threat of the Vietnamese border forces.
The warning, carried by the official Xinhua News Agency, was the latest tough talk by Chinese leaders after recent border clashes and claims of mounting troop civilian casualties by both sides.
"So far, the Vietnamese authorities still refuse to come to their senses and have invaded China's border areas again and again, turning a deaf ear to the sincere advice of the Chinese government," Li said.
Western officials estimate that the Chinese and Vietnamese deploy about 500,000 soldiers each
along their rugged, 500-mile-long frontier.
Despite a clear upsurge in fighting along the mountainous Siñ-Vietnamese border since Feb. 11, diploms say there is no evidence the Chinese were preparing to invade Vietnam.
One diplomat called the recent statements by Chinese leaders bellicose. He compared the statements China's pledge in 1979 to teach Vietnam a lesson after Hanoi's troops invaded Cambodia and ousted the Peking-backed Khmer Rouge government in Phnom Penh. That year, China invaded Vietnam and waged a monthlong border war.
The Vietnamese have enjoyed their biggest success of the six years of fighting in their recent offensive, overrunning all major guerrilla strongholds.
Diplomats said they believed that China was making an issue of the alleged incursions into its territory to justify future action against Vietnam in support of the Chinese-backed Khmer rebels fighting Hanoi's occupation troops in western Cambodia.
The official Chinese press, however, has labeled the Cambodian setbacks strategic retreats. China maintains the rebels, who receive most of their weapons from China, are far from finished.
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Martin said officials were working on three theories on the cause, but he did not give his altitude meter with erroneous data from the Bilafoa control tower.
Faulty map used by pilot in air crash
7 p.m.
Kansas Union.
By United Press International
BILBAO, Spain — Iberia airlines admired yesterday that the pilot of a jetliner that clipped a television tower and smashed into a mountain, killing all 148 people aboard, was not the cause of the tragedy. That was not the cause of the tragedy.
Aviation officials said pilot Jose Luis Patino was flying the Boeing 722 off course and too low Tuesday when the plane slammed into Oz mountain, 18 miles from Bilbao in the northern Basque region, on a flight from Madrid. They offered no explanation for the incorrect course.
Three Americans and Bolivian Labor Minister Gonzalo Guzman Eguez were among the passengers killed in the crash, the third large air disaster in Spain in less than 15 months.
"Something's wrong in Spanish aviation when there are so many accidents," said pilots union president Manuel Lopez, who charged Macy's crash was the result of a faulty air supply to fibra to its aviators.
MORE THAN 700 police, doctors and soldiers yesterday continued their grim hunt for victims' remains, cutting down trees and brush at the crash site, where only three bodies were found intact.
Seventy boxes of remains were flown by helicopter to a soccer field and adjacent civil guard barracks in Bilbao, where about 300 relatives viewed them hoping to make identifications.
LOPEZ SAID A 1981 map given to Iberia pilots did not show the 164-foot television tower or Oiz mountain, 18 miles short of Bilbao airport.
Nineteen victims have been identified, officials said. The U.S. Embassy in Madrid identified the three Americans killed as Timothy O'Reilly, a lawyer for Michelle Tote Tagano, New York; and John Steigerwald. Fort Lee N.J.
Victoriano Martin, director of the air traffic control center near Madrid, said, "The pilot must make an 180-degree turn at a minimum altitude of 4,360 feet and go directly towards the runway, but at that moment, he was at an altitude lower than required. You can deduce he was slightly off route. He hit the mountain."
Iberia President Carlos Espinosa acknowledged the faulty map but said the absence of the tower on the man did not explain the accident
A mass funeral was yesterday in the city's Virgin of Begona Basilica. Queen Sophia and Transportation Minister Lehendakari Ardansza joined hundreds of other mourners in the orate, gold-columna basilica.
Iberia confirmed that the jet had been flying too low but refused comment on the course it was on at the time of the accident.
The weather presented no prob-
lems. And the plane was only five
years old.
It said the two "black box" flight recorders recovered from the wreckage would be analyzed in the future, and the results ready in about two months.