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Samphan's radicalism dates from his days on a government scholarship at the University of Paris. Then in his early 20s and earning a doctorate in economics, he joined a group of Cambodian leftists led by Hou Youn (who might also play a key role in the new regime...
Information Minister Hu Nim, 42, and Minister of the Interior Hou Youn, 45. Both studied in Paris in the 1950s, served in Sihanouk's Cabinet briefly in the 1960s, fell out with the Prince and escaped into exile. Together, the three came to be known as the "three ghosts" of Cambodian politics because it was long believed that Sihanouk had ordered them executed in 1967 for alleged complicity in the Battambang uprising. But in May 1970, two months after Sihanouk's overthrow, the three announced, from somewhere in Cambodia, their support of Sihanouk's new "national front...
...Sihanouk's government, he is one of the three former ministers-sometimes known as the "three ghosts"-whom Sihanouk was supposed to have ordered killed in 1970. As it happens, the two other "ghosts" are also active in the shadow cabinet, Hu Nim as Information Minister and Hou Youn as Minister of the Interior...
Despite Hanoi's powerful military hand, Sihanouk is at least the titular political leader of the K.I. Also increasingly prominent in the movement is an elusive trio known as "the Three Phantoms": Hou Youn, Hu Nim and Khieu Samphan, all members of the Assembly, who dropped from sight in 1967 and were later reported to be ministers in Sihanouk's government-in-exile. Their names frequently appear on documents and in radio broadcasts; in a recent interview with TIME, Sihanouk said that Khieu Samphan is his Premier and head of government. There is some doubt among Western intelligence...
...Since when is "banquet" synonymous with eating a meal that cost little over a dollar, in the Harvard Union, cafeteria style? "Fun an games" were also quite disillusioning. The "games" seemed to consist of paying $.50, for which one received a Monopoly ticket. Upon redeeming this ticket with the youn-man-in-charge-of-drinks, the naive purchaser was handed a glass of slightly flavored ice cubes. The "run" still remains a dark mystery...