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During his short tenure, law students reacted with varying degrees of intensity to controversies over grade reform, the University Hall bust, the disciplining of black law students and the invasion of Cambodia...
...been in Cambodia now for a month, arriving when it looked as if the aid would soon be appropriated. Representing a bewildering variety of firms, he is offering a wide range of items. Among them are cement, plywood, air-conditioners, industrial chemicals, cranes, bulldozers, trucks, troop-carrying vehicles, evaporated milk, 30 ton generators capable of lighting a village, and enough canned food to feed the entire Cambodian army...
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...
...Comin Khmere, a Danish-directed firm with assets of $50 million, has long had a monopoly on many of the goods coming into Cambodia. Severs hopes to work around them, however, with the help of the American Embassy. He says that as a virtual monopoly they have been charging exorbitant prices for years, and that he will be able to undercut them. "I can sell the same can of milk for which they've been getting 18 riels for 6 riels," he explains...
...particularly worried that Congress will not pass the aid request to Cambodia. He says that the current visit of two Fulbright aides is mere "window-dressing" to show that Fulbright is concerned. "But even if Congress doesn't agree to the authorization," he adds, "the government will get the stuff in somehow. Either through the South Vietnamese or Thais or by dumping surplus Pentagon goods...