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...idea of shutting down Washington grew out of outrage over Cambodia and the tragedies at Kent and Jackson State. Davis and Jerry Coffin, an organizer for the War Resisters League, met last June and discussed the possibility of large-scale civil disobedience. Last summer Davis honed their plans still further during a Berkeley meeting that included Mike Lerner, a leading New Left strategist and a defendant in the Seattle Seven trial. By then a model existed: the tie-up of Seattle's freeways by University of Washington students last...
...APRIL 71 0400 HRS. CAI SON AGROVILLE, PHONG PHU VILLAGE, BINH DINH DISTRICT. VC ATTACKED RECEPTION CENTER OF REFUGEES FROM CAMBODIA. KILLING 3 CADRES. 4 ARVN. WOUNDING 3 CADRES AND 10 REFUGEES...
...process, millions of civilians, the innocent and largely silent victims, have been killed, injured or rendered homeless. In South Viet Nam alone, there have been an estimated 1,050,000 civilian casualties, including 325,000 dead, since 1965. Reliable figures on civilian losses are not available for Cambodia, but it is estimated that 10,000 Laotian civilians have been killed and 20,000 injured since the heavy air war over Laos began in early...
...Cambodia, the refugee problem is less severe because the war there is scarcely a year old. The population of Phnom-Penh, the capital, has grown by 400,000, but the city has absorbed them gracefully. "The refugee problem hasn't surfaced yet," says a Western diplomat. "Give it another year." Moreover, since far less land is owned by absentee landlords than in Viet Nam, the average Cambodian peasant is less apt to leave it in moments of stress, and more anxious to return to it when the fighting eases. Cambodia's most serious refugee problem has been...
...CAMBODIA And Now There Are Nine