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...following is the excepted text of a speech delivered by Huot Sambath, member of the Cambodian National United Front's Central Committee on the fourth anniversary of the killing of four students at Kent State University. Huot Sambath made his remarks in Belgrade while serving as the UNF's ambassador to Yuguslovia. The speech was translated for The Crimson by Seth M. Kupferberg...
...dangles the village perilously close to Cambodian supply routes favored by the Viet Cong, and the blades of arriving American helicopters threaten to snip Buon Yun from its mooring. A detachment of twelve U.S. soldiers settles in to protect the village from...
Then, with students' tension at the National Guard's roughness starting to recede, President Nixon sent American troops into Cambodia. Spiritually, he explained, he was maintaining his "scrupulous" respect for "the neutrality of the Cambodian people." Most Americans didn't know that their planes had been bombing Cambodia for over a year. But some Kent State students got angry enough to burn down their ROTC building, anyway. The next day, about 20 National Guardsmen marching up a hill away from an antiwar demonstration wheeled and fired at the crowds. They said a sniper had started it, but no one else...
...discard the restraints of law when they think the dissent it makes possible threatens them enough. And that suggests that some radicals' rhetoric was right all along, that you can't divide freedom, that as long as this country's rulers are willing to kill black demonstrators or Cambodian peasants they'll necessarily be willing to kill white middle-class students--their own children, if necessary, their own non-political children, if necessary--to stop them from exercising their freedom to object. It suggests that if they thought it necessary, some time, they'd kill...
...doubt the Nixon administration and the Pentagon will continue to allow and tacitly encourage U.S. military personnel to help prop up illegitimate and unpopular regimes in which the American government and economic interests have large investments. Junior Cambodian officers told American reporters last week that Americans frequently advise and plan strategy for Lon Nol troops all around beseiged Phnom Penh. Such involvement will probably increase as the Khmer Rouge assault intensifies and achieves more successes like this week's capture of the former royal capital of Oudong...