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- `ª WORLD, Page 57World NotesCAMBODIABreaking New Ground
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- In the latest example of the United Nations' new potency as
- a force for peace, the five permanent members of the Security
- Council unanimously agreed last week on the boldest plan yet
- proposed to end 11 years of fighting in Cambodia. With U.S.,
- Soviet and Chinese backing, the initiative calls for the U.N.
- to dispatch a military force of 10,000 and another 10,000
- civilians to oversee free elections in the strife-torn nation.
- The U.N. would also supervise creation of a supreme national
- council to serve as an interim administration. It would comprise
- representatives of the two noncommunist resistance groups, the
- communist Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese-backed government of
- Prime Minister Hun Sen, all of which say they endorse the plan.
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- If the four factions succeed in drawing up plans for the
- supreme council when they meet this month in Jakarta, the U.N.
- plan would be put before the General Assembly for a vote. The
- agreement, which signals an end of superpower sponsorship of
- the warring groups, could be the most compelling argument.
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