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Show Bloody Davs in Cambodia The Salt Lake Tribune. Sunday pril 17, 5 177 Khmer Rouge Rages Unchecked WASHINGTON iAP. passed since a keeping - Two Near, have U S. ambassador, American flag, flt?d Cambodia shortly before the Amen- - . d government there surrendered to the superior firepower of the Khmer Rouge forces The civil war which raged in Cambodia pre ious five years had ended mu m a sense According to U S estimates, the numbers of Cambodians who have been killed since the 1975 Khmer Rouge triumph has exceeded the number of Amencans who have died in all the wars m which the United States has been involved in this century Between 600,000 and 1 5 million Cambodians have died as a result of executions, starvation, forced marches and other causes, these estimates hold To sae ammunition, executions with pickaxes are said to be common Officials Post Account anous American officials, basing their information largely on refugee reports, gae this account of what has happened m Cambodia since the Khmer Rouge achieved final victory two years ago Sunday: Aside from the obvious targets for liquidation, such as supporters of the ousted Lon Nol regime, the Khmer Rouge have eliminated much of the educated class in Cambodia, which includes anyone with a high school education or more. Education is virtually nonexistent for children after they learn the rudiments of reading and writing. Children are encour- - w aged to py on their parents and other adults and to report to th? authorities on any sign of decadent ' behavior Uses Loudspeakers There is no newspaper in the country, only a few journals which are circulated to selected government officials Loudspeakers are the most common me'hod the government uses to communicate with the people Whereas most Communist countries see the elimination of money as a long range goal, Cambodia already has withdrawn all n Soviets Claim LIS. curiency barter s There persons The Organization' m almost tota regime secrecy Although there is a Camlxkhan Communist party, its existence is not publicly ac know lodged h the authorities The leadership riders to itself simply as Simply Tin ' Soviet leaders of violating his own pledge on human rights by harboring two Lithuanians who hijacked a (LTPI) are accusing President Carter Russian airliner and killed a stewardess almost sev en ears ago The Lithuanians, who entered the United States illegally and await deportation hearings, face death sentences m the Sov let Union. The Soviet embassy released a dispatch Friday from the Russian Novosti press agency saving the pilot and flight engineer of the hijacked plane have asked Carter to turn over the criminals who must answer before Soviet law opc-iate- s the organization is Another sjhvi.iI distinction of the legune its xenophobia There an only eight diplomatic missions m Phnom Penh Among the exclud'd countites is the Soviet Union which still has not been forgiven hv the Khmer Rouge for maintaining with the Lon Nol government Explain Fanatic ism ' i to the icginie Inis Sonic mounted by refugees based in neighboimg Thailand A CamlxKltdn army unit attacked a That border village on Jan 28 and hilled an undetermined number of persons The throats of sev oral children were cut One explanation for the fanaticism ot the Cambodian rulers is that it was forged by years of struggle under extremely arduous conditions .VALLEY FAIR .COTTONWOOD DOWNTOWN MibMituting now an 2ih chh1 living in Phnom Penh, compared with 1 5 million in the capital's heyday ind two nullum when the civ was swollen with refugees two years ago Most of the country's five million inhabitants wotk in '.P'or vamps m th. country sid Many are required to spend heir evenings writing alxmt past crimes they have committed Haboring Slayer WASHINGTON from circulation stem arc BRUSHED NYLON STRETCH SUITS INFANTS ASSORTED SUMMER PLAYCLOTHES Sunny weather clothes in cool, crisp fabrics. 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