The Michigan Daily-Thursday July 8, 1982-Page 5
Vietnam to
withdraw troops
from Cambodia
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam
(AP)- Vietnam said yesterday it will.
pull a "significant" number of its
troops out of Cambodia this month, and
will withdraw more if Thailand keeps
Khmer Rouge guerrillas from using its
territory to stage cross-border attacks.
Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach
did not say how many of the estimated
180,000 Vietnamese troops in Cambodia
would be withdrawn initially, or give
estimates for any future withdrawals.
VIETNAM ALSO proposed a new
joint-control zone along the Thai-
Cambodian border, scene of most of the
fighting between Khmer Rouge and
Vietnamese forces. He said Vietnam
would replace its troops in the zone with
units of the Vietnamese-trained Cam-
bodian army if Thailand would expel
the Khmer Rouge and send in its own
forces.
- Thailand has denied providing san-
ctuary or bases for the Khmer Rouge
and has rejected similar proposals for
the border area sponsored previously
be Vietnam.
Thailand recently helped organize a
three-party coalition of forces opposed
to the current Cambodian regime of
Heng Samrin, installed by Vietnamese
forces that invaded Cambodia in
December 1978.
PRINCE NORODOM Sihanouk, the
former Cambodian ruler who now lives
in Thailand, heads the new Cambodian
government-in-exile. He slipped across
the border yesterday on a symbolic
visit to a sliver of western Cambodia
already held by the insurgents-the fir-
st time he had been in his homeland
since the Vietnamese invasion.
Sihanouk reviewed troops and
delivered an impassioned, 90-minute
speech to a crowd of cheering Cam-
bodians in their camp at Sroch Srang.
"We can one day succeed in
liberating our homeland," he said. The
government-in-exile is a coalition of
forces that have been antagonists. It in-
cludes Sihanouk and former Prime
Minister Son Sann. Most of its troops
are from the Khmer Rouge, the China-
backed communists whose bloody rule
in Cambodia was ended by Vietnam.
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U.S. Postal Service
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improving,
SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP)- The U.S.
Postal Service cut costs and improved
productivity in its first decade as an in-
dependent agency, according to a study
issued yesterday as the postmaster
general said the 20-cent stamp would
likely hold until early 1984.
Overall, the one-year $500,000
examination of the Postal Service
yielded a good deal of praise for its ac-
complishments since 1971, when the
federal agency was created out of the
200-year-old Post Office Department.
BUT ALAN Dean, chairman of the
National Academy of Public Ad-
ministration, advised Postmaster
General William Bolger and other
members of the Board of Governors to
overhaul mail rate-making procedures,
to use aggressively new technology to
move the mail swiftly and clheaply and
to work on its public image.
"The USPS, in its successful efforts
to reduce costs and increase produc-
tivity, seems to have pursued these ob-
jectives at some sacrifice in employee
courtesy and customer services and
needs to redress this imbalance," the
Public Administration study said in a
summary.
The study was funded by the Postal
Service, which was a Cabinet-level
government department until the
reorganization.
BEFORE DEAN presented the
study says
report at the Board of Governors' mon-
thly meeting, Bolger said the agency's
accountants had been anticipating an
$84 million deficit at the end of a one-
month period ending June 11, but found
a $24 million surplus instead.
That means the 20-cent price of the
first-class stamp will probably hold at
least through early 1984, Bolger said.
The Postal Service said earlier the
price would hold until November 1983.
The 10-member study panel, which
devoted a large part of the report to
postal rates, couldn't agree on how the
Postal Service should go about setting
them, said Dean.
THEY DID agree that the Postal Ser-
vice "should make a major effort to
simplify the confusing array of sub-
classes and distinctions within each of
the four classes of mail."
And they ruled out returning to the
old system of allowing Congress to set
rates.
One alternative would be to turn rate-
setting over to the Federal Com-
munications Commission, Dean said.
Another suggestion would be to create a
postal-rate body with more indepen-
dence than the current Postal Rate
Commission.
THE STUDY found productivity has
increased "significantly," especially in
light of salaries, Dean said.
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