Viet troops press fight at major Cambodian rebel base
Heavy shelling in Aranyaprathet marks sixth day of battle for Nong Samet camp. Rebels report casualties while civilians flee across the border as Vietnamese forces overrun parts of the base and burn huts. Cambodian KPNLF fighters retake portions of the camp amid ongoing clashes.
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Thai and Vietnamese Forces Buck for Cambodian Clash
Thai military sources report Hanoi added 1,000 troops at Nong Samet to push back guerrillas as fighting erupts. Vietnam shells Ampil camp 19 miles north but no clash reported. Ampil houses about 5,000 KPNLF guerrillas guarding the fortified site. KPNLF leader Son Sann visits Ampil for strategy as Vietnam massed armor for a potential assault.
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Iraq claims downed two Iranian F-4 warplanes in dogfight
Iraq said its jet fighters shot down two Iranian Phantom F-4s during a dogfight in the Misan zone while attacking Iranian positions. It reported 40 Iranian casualties and other bombardments across the border as two weeks of intensified air action continued. No independent verification was provided.
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OPEC ministers approve group to enforce oil quotas
OPEC oil ministers in Geneva formed a five member executive council to audit compliance with production quotas and police members' sales. A 50 cent per barrel rise for heavy crude and 25 cent rise for medium crude were set, while extra light crude would drop 25 cents. The reference price stays at $29. The group will meet March 28 to review the auditing system and price range.
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United Arab Excirates
Booby Trapped Car Bomb Kills Four in Shweifat
A Mercedes bomb exploded in Shweifat near Beirut, killing at least four and wounding seven. Among the dead were a woman and her two young daughters. The blast, using about 110 pounds of explosives, is the fourth car bomb targeting Druse areas in a month as Beirut protesters seal roads seeking government accountability for missing people during Lebanon’s civil war.
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Nazi war criminal Walter Reder seeks release amid massacre vote
In Marzabotto Italy a jailed former major of the Nazi army, Walter Reder, writes of profound repentance for the 1944 massacre that killed 18 residents, mostly women and children. Relatives to vote on urging the government to free him from prison as Bologna’s archbishop and a Jesuit journal call for his release.
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Giacomo Biffi
Japan boosts defense spending in austerity budget
Japan approved a fiscal 1985 budget totaling 218 billion dollars with a 53 billion dollar deficit. Defense outlays rise 6.9 percent to 13 billion under Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, who seeks stronger military capability while keeping the 1 percent of GNP cap intact for now.
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Rightist Assembly Cuts El Salvador Budget Defying Duarte
In San Salvador the ultra right majority in the National Assembly reduced the 1985 budget by 12 million dollars. They eliminated funds for three presidential commissions, cut the vice president’s pay by 600 dollars yearly, and slashed the agricultural budget by 5.2 million. Duarte’s PDC accused the cuts of harming poor farm workers while Guillermo Ungo of the DRP framed the move as subservience to rightist forces amid tensions with the government.
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China purges aging senior officers in PLA reshuffle
Western diplomats say Deng Xiaoping consolidates control as dozens of top PLA officers retire on December 22. The Liberation Army Daily notes most replacements are younger and more open minded, signaling a purge of old-guard leftists from Mao era prominence.
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Bomb defused at U S base in Wiesbaden amid hunger strike protests
Terrorists linked to the Red Army Faction cut a fence at Lindsey Air Station in Wiesbaden and set a firebomb outside an unoccupied building. The device was defused, marking the fifth attack on Western bases in two weeks, with solidarity for 39 jailed members who began a hunger strike on December 4.
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Owe Baader- Meinhof
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