June 1970The following are excerptsfrom an article by ex-Green BeretDon Duncan dealing with the CIAinspired overthrow of PrinceSihanouk of Cambodia.ten prior to the US invasion ofCambodia._ -- MEMASRESPEAERERAAS SEP RCE RARER aan8Sihanouk gave up the throne tobecome head of a socialist party.While Cambodia's neighbors werearming to protect themselves fromtheir own people and becomingever deeper enmeshed in Americanforeign policy, Sihanouk wasbuilding schools and hospitals.Sihanouk was willing to acceptaid for his country from anysource so long as it came witheutstrings.While ARVN was being used toextort taxes and haul guillotinesfrom village to village, Sihanoukset his small army to clearingjungle for new farmland for thepeople. He made his generals actout their militaristic fantisiesin home-movies.It was write-o_o i wry5 {A ryBRIEFSUnder Sihanouk's directionrefugee camps were set up forVietnamese who had fled the warand government in their owncountry. Actually model hamlets(materials were cajoled from pri-vate businessmen), which camecomplete with farm land and fin-ancial grants, put the CIA sink-holes in Vietnam called StrategicHamlets to shame,Twice a year he brought thepeople and all government offic-ials face to face. The purposewas to let the people point ac-cusing fingers at the shortcom-ings of those serving them. Ifthe official could not defend hinm-self against the charge of graft,extortion, injustice, etc., hewas fired on the spot.Sihanouk made every public of-ficial spend one day a week atreal manual labor on public worksprojects, E.E. youth hostels, ir-rigation ditches for farmers, etc.Since Sihanouk did not exempt him-self, despite being the busiestPage 4June 1970cambodiaman in the country, no one wasexempt.Cambodia is the only countryin Indochina into which we havenot poured billions of dollars.While its neighbors destroyedthemselves under U.S. direction,Cambodia progressed in all areas- health, wealth, food, industry,education. Walking a narrow line,Sihanouk kept his country direct-ly out of way. He was the rarestof all things - a truly popularleader with his people. One onlyhad to see him wade unescortedthrough throngs of people to seehow real was their mutual loveand respect.Sihanouk related to the peoplenot the politicians, the Army, orto the moneyed elite. He was mak-ing socialism work for the peoplewhen the U.S. said it had to bethe U.S. way or no way. He madeprogress without U.S. arms andmoney when the U.S. said such athing was impossible, He kept hiscountry aloof from the war whenthe U.S. said neutralism wasdeath. He was proving a countrycould remain independent and yetbe cooperative with many coun-tries of various political per-Suasions. He was eradicating YaciSMeeceeThe Beginning of the EndThe ominous puzzle and polit-ical game continues in SE Asia.President Nixon has again befud-dled the populace, foreign policyexperts, and other nations withhis excursion into Cambodia. Themove has elicited numerous inter-pretations, but mainly it hascreated a great world guessingLaMe eAssuming President Nixon wantsout of Indochina, either by hisVietnimazation program or by ne-gotiated settlement, the move into Cambodia perhaps follows hisinane logic. It fails as an actof wise decision-making whenweighing all considerations.Dissent at home is peaking.The people of the country wereagain betrayed by false promisesand clandestine military plan-ning. The Commander-in Chief hadconveniently squelched dissentwith promised draft reductions,phased withdrawls, and statementslike oa just peace around thecorner", in speeches from Novem-ber thru April.Apathy has been severed. Theanti-war forces have begun a massBRAGG BRIEFSwave of owithin-the system� po-litical activism such as lobbyingCongress, nationwide petitioning,campaigning, and school strikes.A great constitutional battlereigns in the Senate concerningthe President's power to wageware Though a clear-cut majorityfavors a measure to curb actionin Cambodia, efforts may proveabortive due to filibustering byNixon loyalists, and escaperoutesaccesible to the President.The Achilles tendon of the ad-ministration's war effort maywell be the current financialcrisis, influenced predominantlyby escalation of the war and na-tionwide protest. As the stockmarket tumbles, the war is gain-ing more attention as the insti-gator of inflation and recession.Page 5Though the Cam. ~dian move pro-tects American trovys (to quickenwithdrawls as Nixon claims) theramifications in a tense worldsituation are dangerous. China?Already the Asian giant has call-ed together the revolutionaryforces of Indochina for unitedaction to oust the imperialistinvader. She has already pledgedmore financial and military sup-port to Hanoi. Russia, who seemedto be urging Hanoi toward concil-iatory bargaining with the US,now has cooled to such ideaseMilitary experts also assailthe mission. How many times inthe past 9 years has a Presidentpromised to end the war with onedramatic stepe The Tet offensivein 1968 was preceded only fourmonths by an American ocrushingblow� to Communist sanctuaries.The administration's policydictates such myopiae The silentmajority will accept any move to"protect our boys over there�.The logic of. Johnson and Nixonnaturally produces this endlessdebacle. There can be no justpeace, there can be no victoryeRational must be changed. Whycontinue Gulf of Tonkin elusive-ness in justifying Americantroops to kill Indochinese peopledestroy its land, tear apart thiscountry, and further protractworld discord. We must restoresanity at home before its toolatee©1970 Chicago Daily NewsoDear President NixonINVASION.CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1brass, lifers, and Armed ForcesDay as a wholeeAmong the leaflets passed outwas USATCI Reg 600-51 which dealswith the standards of conduct be-tween permanent party and traineepersonnel. Col Thomas R Cross, thetraining center commander andauthor of the reg, was so complete-ly dumfounded and taken aback atthe possible distribution of hisown reg that he even consideredthe possibility of obtaining afederal court injunction aimed athalting its distribution on post.Cross apparently knows only too_"well what would occur if all train-ees were informed as to what thereg contains. Some examples: noprofane or abusive language towardanyone or a groups no use of lan-guage connoting ridicule or sar-casm which would tend to humiliateor embarrass an individual orgroups no mass punishment; no pun-. . . What really tickled my funny bone waswhen you said you were sending troops to Cambodia to save lives... .99violations of this particular reg.Obviously, Cross never intendedto have the reg enforced and it isequally obvious that his actionsin attempting to suppress distribu-tion was an act of fear - fearthat his double-fisted dictator-ship would crumble under the tideof freedom and justice.oinvasion� was a success asfar as its organizers were concern-ed. It introduced the concept ofnon-cooperative and legal non-in-volvement in the war machine tohundreds of active duty Gis. JaneFonda read the above described regto a group of trainees and beganto distribute ite She, BarbaraDane, and Mark Lane were later ar-rested by the MPs and taken to theProvost Marshall's Office, alongwith about 13 other civilians whohad been picked up for distribu-tion of leaflets on the post, butonly after a bunch of good rapsessionse It was a successful ex-'leaflet all the time,M-16 RALLYCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1versities in the provinces, andall the government officials oncea week, and dig this, had to gointo the fields and work with thepeople.� She emphasized the tre-mendous voice of the people inCambodia under the prince.Jane adamantly charged the USin biased politics in dealingwith Cambodia's neutrality. oWhenwe saw the Chinese giving aid toCambodia, we said GOTTA GET OUTOF THERE, canTt have the Chinesegiving aidoee so we cut off dip-lomatic relations with Sihanouke.ee and Nixon says we are protect-ing a neutral government noWe�The actress urged strong sup-port from civilians for GI's andadded oLet*s all go on bases andlet's campoutside the bases, let*s showthem we are behind themeeee be=lieve me Nixon may be able to ig-nore Congress, the Americanpeople, but he can't very wellignore the sound of his troopsmarching against his policiese�In a reply to an invitation byGeneral Tolson to visit post(legally) she stated "I will comewhen all our troops are out of SEAsia, when the Bill of Rights isextended to the GI's.�Rennie Davis oindicted� Rich-ard Nixon as the chief culprit indestroying GI loyalty and morale.In explaining where the relevanthe chided the establishment's nametags by saying "it will come fromall the punks, outlaws, bums, re-volutionaries and anarchists�In a critique of our move intoCambodia, Rennie described thedestruction of that neutral coun-try, and remarked oRichard Nixonin trying to get a sanctuary inCambodia, had created an Indo-chinese war in which China is thesanctuary e"The victim of Julius Hoffman'swrath labeled Vietnamization asgenocide in that "380,000 Viet-amese civilians have been killed,and + of ths Se Vietmanese pop-ulation are locked up in concen-tration camps.�Davis warned the audience that"there is not only a war againstIndochina, but the US has wagedwar against the black and browncommunities, and we announce toAgnew country that the anti-warmovement will no longer be sep-arated from the black liberationmovemente�The large crowd, which respond-ed wildly to speeches all dayroared loudest to Mark Lane'~sdramatic promise that "we willtear down this military man byman," as he refered to a machinethat was originally formed bycivilians to crush fascism and isnow promoting it. Lane, WWII vet,blasted Nixon's abuse of the con-ing of an interview with a Viet-nam veteran who had witnessedatrocities. He also mentioned astudy made by the Rand Corpora-tion at the request of RichardNixon dealing with the feasibil-ity of dispensing with the 1972elections.Political entertainment wasprovided by Barbara Dane. Afterseveral numbers on the GI move-ment, she turned the crowd on toa chant dealing with what mightbe the backbone of the GI move-ment - INSUBORDINATION. The Fay-etteville Theatrical Associationstreet theater presented a mocktrial of the ruling class.The GI movement was describedby the Fort Bragg speakers in de-tail. J.C. Hunnicutt of Women'sEmancipation in Fayetteville ex-pressed her feelings on the GIoppression which entailed thebondage of GI women as welle JeComade the crack of the day by say-ing "Richard Nixon is not a pres-ident, héts a pimp.�The rally was summed up bestby one of the civilian organizers"The rally was the biggest anti-war protest in North Carolinahistorye It proved the GI's coulcmuster strong civilian support.It proved to people GI*s willspeak out, and it proved that un-ited they have power-power thatmade the army restrict many GI'soI was born in KentuckyKentucky raised and bredBut when I joined The Movementstitution as "the greatest inThey called me a Chinese Red.�and which caused the cancellationhistory." He played a tape record-of Armed Forces Daye�periment in relating masses ofishment by NCO's; etc. Basic train-civilians to the GI movement.ing at Ft Bragg is dependent onsupport comes for the GI movement