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...they have carried on a bitter struggle against their ancient ethnic enemies. Last week the Khmer Rouge-perhaps the world's most secretive and xenophobic Marxists -allowed a small group of Western journalists, including TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, to visit one of their bases inside Cambodia. Anxious to placate world opinion, which was appalled by reports that they had slaughtered millions of their own people, the Khmer Rouge produced their most articulate leader, President and Premier Khieu Samphan, 48. His confident if ominous message: the guerrillas will fight a protracted "people's war" against...
Samphan's doctoral dissertation, written in Paris in the 1950s, provided the ideological basis for some of the Khmer Rouge's most radical policies, like Cambodia's complete withdrawal from the world economy. Three months ago, he became supreme leader of Democratic Kampuchea (as the Khmer Rouge call Cambodia), succeeding notorious ex-Premier Pol Pot, who nonetheless still commands the guerrilla army. In a lengthy statement to visiting journalists, Samphan claimed that the Khmer Rouge has a fighting force of 50,000, a figure that is far in excess of most Western estimates. He called for unity...
Another reason for reinstitution of the draft is largely political: do we want to have a standing professional army? For example, would we have found out about My Lai or the secret bombings in Cambodia if no unwilling and uncommitted inductees had been in the armed forces at the time, ready and willing to risk blowing the whistle on these illegal acts? A citizen army, representing all classes, races and ethnic groups, would be an institution that would more closely adhere to the values, and ultimately, the will of the American people...
FACT: At least 200,000 tons of additional food must reach Cambodia, and 40,000 more tons of pesticides and seeds, if a major famine is to be avoided later this year...
...most fantastically rosy notions about the Communist regime circulated in the West, and so-called progressive public opinion greeted it with joy, in spite of the fact that by 1921, 30 Russian provinces were undergoing a Cambodia-like genocide. (In Lenin's lifetime, no fewer innocent civilians perished than under Hitler, and yet today American schoolchildren, who invariably regard Hitler as the greatest villain in history, look upon Lenin as Russia's benefactor.) The Western powers vied with one another to give economic and diplomatic support to the Soviet regime, which could not have survived without this...