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...produce rifles. Last week Secretary Laird promised increased military aid to Bangkok during the 1970s. He has apparently already delivered on part of it: two new secret bases, one reportedly a communications center near Chiang Mai in northern Thailand and the other a possible assault base on the Cambodian border, are currently under construction with U.S. assistance. Japan is under strong pressure to spend more on self-defense than the minuscule .8% of its annual gross national product (or $1.6 billion) that it currently allocates...
...credible and forceful liberal. He played an important part in the fight against the nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court, traveled to Washington to protest the Cambodian invasion last spring, and reportedly joined several deans in asking President Pusey to reconsider his decision to call in the police during the University Hall occupation of spring...
...affable and soft-spoken man, Severs explains that he has spent most of the last month making contacts within the Cambodian government. He new eats and drinks regularly with several high-ranking officials within the Department of Foreign and Economic Affairs. He is counting on these individuals to award him contracts once the aid is given the Cambodian government...
Seavers is currently receiving a long-term multiple entry and reentry visa to Cambodia for the rather low price of $40. In return, when the Chinese private secretary of a high-ranking Cambodian official goes to Singapore shortly-to price goods which will be purchased once the aid money is approved-Seavers has arranged for him to be "taken care of" by his Chinese partners...
Although payoffs have not come up explicitly at this early stage in Seaver's Cambodian venture, he says they will later on. 'The way it will work," he explains, "is like with my air-conditioners, say, The list price represents a 46 per cent profit. I'll take a 20 per cent commission. This leaves 26 per cent to play around with." This would go both into private pockets and to lowering prices so as to undercut competitors...