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Show Women's 1b, Cambodan Sfye; fcqua Rights, but Also tqual buttering By TOM TIEDE KAM PAUL, Cambodia-(NE- A) When Luy Neary was wounded high on the thigh during a recent battle, Cambodian medics cut away the trousers with more than the usual medical enthusiasm. Luy Neary is a woman. And what a woman. A feminist of perhaps the ultimate degree, she practices equal rights with deeds instead of yak. At four feet, three inches, 61 pounds, she is a soldier in the Cambodian Army. She doesn't like it. But she does it. i Just like a man. Luy Neary is, actually, not. a rarity here. Women have no garrison soldier. She's one ' of 3,000 elite Khmer To get her paratroopers. been "liberated" in Asian countries since before Betty Freidan was a seed and that's some time ago. lu Vietnam the girls operate the garbage trucks, in Laos they carry rocks in wicker baskets to build roads. In Cambodia, thousands of them, nobody seems to know exactly how many, are spending the war years in the olive drab wrappings of national defense. The gil ls are not just military ornaments either. As part of Cambodia's national mobilization program, (a mostly ignored plan to enlist the entire populace in the war), some women are given the same kind cf army duty as men-t- hat is, hard-cer- e Luy Neary, as combat. example, fajump badge and jungle tigues, she spent foil." months at some of the most rigorous physical training known to man (and, now, woman). Fifteen-hou- r days. Five-milcombat runs. preparation ("The men all try to get women recruits for this"). Just to toughen up, paratroops here practice jumping from successively higher walls, 10, 20, 30 feet and. up "until you don't vomit when you hit ground." Not everybody makes it through the training. But, say commanders, the women's failure rate is no higher than the men's. "That may surprise Americans," grins a paratroop colonel, "but we Cambodians expect e Hand-to-han- is d Luy Neary is fully qualified on the M 16 and AK-4a riiies. She can field-stridirty machine gun and put it back together as if her life depends on it. She can survive in the jungle on worms, grubs and things that leave slime when they crawl. She can march 10 miles in heat and then dig a foxhole to sleep in for the night. Sue has been taught to shrug off bomb concussions, snake bites, leeches and enemy tortures. And, most importantly, she can, and does, jump from airplanes, in a Held hospital before being rated fit, and thus put back on the roster for more war For her sacrifices as a 7 p Not long ago, while carrying out orders, and sagging under a combat pack that weighed almost as much as she (35 pounds), Luy Neary spotted a Khmer Rouge (Cambodian Communist) in a tree. Unfortunately, he saw her first. The guerrilla opened fire and caught the girl in the thigh. "1 didn't feel it at first," she says, and so fired back at the tree. "Then when I moved, I fell over." She stayed o er, seriously wounded, for XN Sears to the nilitary for rations. As yet. after two years of service, she has not been given any rank; and she is expected to obey without question (on pain of death), work as long as required, and stay in uniform "until national security woman. Luy Neary has received no considerations other than a separate barracks to sleep in (sometimes). For her patriotism as a soldier, she has been treated with equal impartiality. That is to say, like most down-rantroopers in this blistered, impoverished country, she has received practically nothing. She has been awarded one medal. She is paid $14 a month (50 cents daily), part -. Yet Luy Neary doesn't complain. Much. At least not publicly. Cambodian equal rights haven't yet progressed to the stage" where male chauvinist pig sergeants will permit women in the ranks much more than equal work and equal suffering. "You can talk to her," says Luv ""p if ' So. lhK. (UIIIIOI SK ;! ": llidMun.l Dr. hi HI.KVHMMO 22 tl OiirlniKl !. iMMHTKl.ui.il) SOJIf Is SI U ,1 i j 211.1 'f, IIKVHI If By ALBERT FAUSTEVO Arthur H. Bremer apparently was on the road and living in his car several weeks before Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was gunned down in Maryland. New York State police say Bremer was given a speeding ticket near Binghamton, about 20 miles north of the Pennsylvania line, April 15. Kalamazoo, ' Mich, police questioned him as a. "suspicious person" May 13 just before a Wallace rally. J Dryer One-Cyc- le with Heated or Unheated Temperature Selections " """'Su -- r - T . . . Highway 13 about 15 miles south of the besieged city. "I think someone made a mistake," one officer said. "We certainly never asked them to hit the highway." complications develop. Wallace is BELFAST The street has expected to undergo another operation in become known as "Peace Line" about a week when surgeons because it separates Roman will attempt to remove the Catholic and Protestant neighbullet that lodged near borhoods in the Lower Falls his lower spine. But chances Road area. Thursday, a are slim that he will walk boy playing with other teen-ageon the Protestant again. Around the World side died in a burst of machine NEW YORK It was raining gun fire from the Catholic side. and foggy as the luxury liner Later, a car sped through the Queen Elizabeth 2 stopped all Catholic area spraying subPassen- machine gun bullets. One youth engines in gers lined the rails watching was hit in the jaw, another in the planes overhead. As they the leg. "...We've come to violence," circled, four black and white expect this striped parachutes blossomed. a security official said. The four British frogmen who jumped were picked up from the ocean by launch. As the Pay-of- f Queen, with 1,350 passengers Ind. WEST LAFAYETTE, aboard, resumed its course for spend $40,000 on France the frogmen, who were (UPI)-"- We demolition experts, searched each baby and make our last the ship for bombs. They found payment on our child's educahim none. An extortionist had told tion just in time to hear Cunard's New York office six lash out against our materia- 4-Cy- J Washer with Soak Cycle cle 30-Mi- n. I I I I If ""'7 J gf vSli H $11 (Q)(D) 7 Jr f Permanent Press, regular and delieate cycles. Regular and slow I J : Set timer for heated drying cycle or unheated for fluffing clothes, interior lnt screen. provides C3Sy aocess Tom either side. jIjU T'wSisSy . ' rs Wisconsin The resident had been gone for about a month from his Milwaukee apartment. Among the items found in his car were pillows, blankets, toilet articles, road maps and travel guides for the Ohio and Pennsylvania turnpikes. Bremer, arrested after Wallace was shot at the rally in a Laurel shopping center, is under heavy guard in Baltimore Count? Jail. As the governor lay paralyzed from the waist down in Holy Cross Hospital Li Silver Spring, his Md., campaign aides apparently were considering the bombs on the ship would be of a wheelchair detonated if he didn't get possibility $350 000. campaign. WASHINGTON John B. Dr. Alfred J. Luessenhop, a likes to do a job and noted neurosurgeon who is a Il no special Cambodia'! elite paratroopers favors. specialist in spinal injuries, says Wallace could resume his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination from a wheelchair within a month if no stubborn dirt. Safely lid II work saver. a waxtMiaY lor jiruT IKi. 1DVMO 2iminl lnlSo, p The Week in Review IIOMK. iy :ir.2iKiKai f LUY NEAhY, second from right, and her female friends in the Cambodian army, are treated exactly as their male comrades in A Ioh Main Si. TI Mill Kil'h. So. Main Si. VISii j ), i Still, like most common soldiers, the woman's deep thoughts about killing and privation and hardship are quite obvious. And che says as much, even with her sergeant listening near. Sitting on the running board of a truck, blowing the flies out of her eyes, smoothing her hair, she sighs: "I always want to be a mother. Now' I am a soldier. As long as I am a soldier I cannot be a mother." The sergeant doesn't catch it. but it is a beautiful, unusual condemnation of w ar. Kenmore Washer ij m iipl , "f-f-t-- assured." is k jjfessssssao-- II Neary 's dour company top- kick, "but I will have to listen too." of which is returned three months land in the middle of wars, and then do what has to be done even kill to carry out her mission orders. more from our women. And. to be sure, they get it. Load-A-Do- or 2loi c. Con-nal- ly move gray-haire- Eleven-Stat- e Colo. DURANGO, (UPI)-Wal- lace K Christiansen, chief of the Western U.S. Water Plan for the Bureau of Reclamation, told the Colorado League of Women Voters' biennial state council this week that the program would have numerous benefits. Christiansen, whose base' of operations is in Denver, outlined the progress of the plan thus far and offered statistics showing that the demand for water in the West will exceed the supply by 140 per cent by the year 2000. The Western U.S. Water Plan is a project approved by Congress in 1968. The project calls for a listing of the goals and objectives of water needs for an area west of the Continental Divide. Two Durango area men-Fr- ank Sam Maynes and Fred Kroeger, both members of the Colorado Water Congress took part in a water panel discussion with Christiansen and questioned some of the aims of the ar te program. Maynes, a lawyer, criticized the size and scope of the plan and said ft was little more than a tangle of compromises. He particularly criticized a moratorium placed on any diversion of water into the Colorado River Basin. Kroeger said work on the plan was not progressing fast enough. He said a quarter of the alloted time h?d aeen used up so far, but Jiat the program liad not reached the 25 per cent stage toward completion. distinguished, Texan's retirement d from the Water Plan Told to Women The on. ar $62,0OO-a-ye- Ultimate lism." 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