Word: sann
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Military spokesman Kyaw Sann said the clashes began Sunday night when "the violent mob attacked security forces with catapaults and jinglees [metal darts] and the troops had to disperse the mob by shooting in many parts of the town...
...Kyaw Sann said crowds yesterday raided two police stations, stealing rifles, pistols, and ammunition. Reports said that protesters, some carrying swords, spears and crossbows, were taking the weapons of the fallen soldiers...
...current military strength of the Khmer Rouge, largest of the three guerrilla groups (the others are Sihanouk's Nationalist Army and former Premier Son Sann's Khmer People's National Liberation Front), is in dispute. Soviet and Vietnamese military advisers insist that the Kampuchean armed forces can contain the threat, but Western analysts have their doubts. Kampuchea's 30,000-man regular army and the 100,000 irregulars assigned to defend their country are largely untested. Many Kampucheans fear that once the Vietnamese draw down their forces, the Khmer Rouge may succeed in grabbing power once more...
...swept through the country, setting up a puppet government that both the U.S. and the U.N. refuse to recognize. In addition to the Khmer Rouge, whose 35,000 guerrillas are supported by China, the armed opposition to the current regime includes two non-Communist groups: one led by Son Sann, the other led in absentia by the exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk...
...Sann and Prince Norodom Ranariddh, son of Prince Sihanouk, traveled to Washington last week to seek Administration approval for such an appropriation. Said Son Sann after meeting with Secretary of State George Shultz: "I am sure the U.S. will come to our aid. I ask for assistance, not U.S. troops." Shultz reportedly made no commitments, but Son Sann said that he was assured by the Secretary that he was "among friends...