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Something to Chew On. The most respected soldier in Cambodia was Dap Chhuon (pronounced Chew-on). As a reward for his brilliant rise from French army corporal-dap means corporal-to guerrilla leader, against first the French and then the Communist Viet Minh, Dap Chhuon had been named Royal Delegate and Governor of the Siemréap area, which includes the renowned ruins of the lost 12th century Khmer civilization of Angkor Wat. Slim, natty Dap Chhuon made Siemréap his personal fief with three battalions of Cambodia's 31,000-man army under his personal command...
Recently Communist informers reported to Sihanouk that Dap Chhuon planned, with help from Thailand, to assassinate the Premier, overthrow the monarchy and establish an anti-Communist republic. Sihanouk dispatched a battalion to Siemréap with orders to get Dap Chhuon, dead or alive...
...Dap Chhuon fled in the night into the jungles in his under-sarong. Last week, acting on another tip, Sihanouk's forces captured him. Shortly afterward the government announced that Dap Chhuon had died "of injuries," but had made "important revelations" first to his captors...
Message to Ike. Pictures of Dap Chhuon's bleeding body were posted in triumph on the trees lining Pnompenh's avenues, and Sihanouk flew a delegation of foreign diplomats into Siemréap to show them the "proof" of a plot-two captured Vietnamese radio operators, $4,000,000 worth of gold, and a purported message to Cambodian exiles in Thailand asking the strength of their forces. Brushing aside the denials from Thailand and South Viet Nam, Sihanouk thanked the Communists for tipping him off, and then turned on a "certain leading power" that furnishes arms to both...
...Leyal Aid Bureau provides free legal advice to all members of the University as well as to all people of Cambridge wio cannot afford professional lawyers. The office hours at 763 Massachusetts Avenue are from 4 to 6 o'clock and 7 to 9 o'clock every dap except Saturday and Sunday. No criminal cases are handled, but anything from arguments with landlords to divorces and automobile accidents come under the society's jurisdiction. Last year 203 Cambridge cases and 45 University cases were handled: Of the University cases, none were lost...