However, also in late June, the Senate intelligence committee voted to reduce drastically the covert aid programme to these two non-communist groups.

About 2,000 pro-democracy demonstrators rallied outside Bulgaria's main broadcasting building today to press calls for non-Communist groups to be allowed to present their views on state-run television.

Soon a rebel coalition consisting of the Khmer Rouge and two non-Communist groups began waging a guerrilla war against the new government.

Cuban soldiers have fought against non-communist groups in Angola, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua.

The opposition alliance includes the Khmer Rouge and two smaller, non-Communist groups.

Diplomats here said they were encouraged by the fact that the non-Communist groups had earlier approved a general outline of the plan of the five permanent members.

Their intelligence reports to Mr. Gorbachev are said to portray non-Communist political groups as subversive, and Western intentions as sinister.

As the largest non-Communist partisan groups, they benefited from provisions and training that were denied to other units by the western Allies.

"We don't want a military solution in Cambodia," said a senior Western diplomat here, whose country supports the non-Communist insurgent groups.

The non-partisans included some members of the Black Panthers (several others joined the Left Camp of Israel) and other left-wing non-communist groups.