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Reports said 10 battalions of "Khmer Krom"--Cambodians who have resided in southern Vietnam--had recently been moved into Cambodia and might serve as occupation troops in an effort to present the war as strictly a Cambodian affair...
Paul Firman pulls a string of European companies offering tax-haven advice for the wealthy. To hear Firman tell it, his setup "is an organization concerned with tax avoidance by strictly legal means." A Dutch criminologist named Professor Frits Krom had once glimpsed Firman in a different guise, as an agent in an extortion and embezzlement ring...
Fiscal Crimes. Ambler sets these two adversaries down in a Mediterranean villa and proceeds to complicate an already tangled web. Firman's task is to feed Krom a diet of "truth, rubbish and half-truth" that will leave his interrogator totally befuddled and, most important, hide the identity of Firman's boss: Mat Williamson, a Fiji-born financial wizard who can be terminally mean when his interests are threatened. While Firman tries to bamboozle the professor and his two academic assistants, Williamson decides to hasten things by killing everyone involved...
...military-aid program. More than half has been spent on ammunition and rifles for Cambodia's ill-equipped army, which at one point was posting guard teams to stand duty without weapons. U.S. funds have also been used to equip six battalions of Khmer Krom mercenaries (ethnic Cambodians from Viet Nam), provide much-needed radio communications, buy 40 military trucks and trailers, and send about 10,000 Cambodian troops to Thailand and South Viet Nam for military training. Says Jonathan (Fred) Ladd, 49, a former Green Beret colonel who was called out of retirement to oversee arms...
Witness for the Prosecution. In Springfield. Mass.. District Attorney Matthew J. Ryan got unusual satisfaction out of his successful prosecution of Edward Krom. who had been caught passing checks signed "Matthew J. Ryan...