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By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Linda Feldmann

June 23, 1983

Secretary of State George Shultz leaves today (June 23) for Asia. He will visit the Philippines, Thailand, India, and Pakistan. The trip is expected to be dominated by the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the Soviet-backed Vietnamese presence in Cambodia. In Pakistan he will visit a refugee camp housing nearly 3 million Afghans.