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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand March 27, 1975 The Utah Independent Page 9 TOM BREITLING KHMER REPUBLIC CAMBODIANS FLEE Continued from page 1 made retroactive from March 17 the County Attorneys office at back to the late January or early somc mutually-agree- d future time. he actually wanted Commissioner February date so that Grundfossen be could paid at, $10 an hour for approval of an ex post facto tract. non-leg- al work. 3- The fact that the hourly Both THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEand DESERET NEWS fee rate for Grundfossen had never for Tuesday, March 18 revealed been settled. For example. Van that Pete Grundfossen had already Dam told me the fee would be $10 been working for several weeks an hour, and this is the same rate DESERET NEWS used. Then before this was brought to light by an unknown caller to the Bob on Sean Rileys radio program the Salter program on KSXX radio. County Attorney said the rate After reading the stories in the wou,d he 7 an hour. When I asked two daily newspapers this reporter Kinghorn about this difference of phoned the office of County At- - rate he said that Grundfossen torney Paul Van Dam in an effort wanted $10 an hour, but that to learn if he had deliberately Kinghorn and Van Dam were mislead me and the listeners to the 8n8 to try to pay him $7. It may be that these few quesr Sean . Riley program. Mr. Van Dam was not in the office, so I tions may he the tip of an iceberg talked to his assistant, Mr. Jerry that we call the County Attorneys of fice. Just as an example, look at Kinghorn. Dam Kinghorn said that the reluctance Attorney Van inves-last Grundfossen was hired near the showed with respect to the week in January, supposedly to tigation of the liquor scandal. It clean up a mess in the civif division seems clear from stories appearing he local media that if a of Van Dams office. It seems that 'n Deputy County Attorney John G. Srand jurY had not been called, the mess could feave remained a Avery had been hand-picke- d by liquor former County Attorney Carl mystery. Even with $69,000 ap- propriated by the Legislature for a Nemelka to succeed him. Then Paul Van Dam upset Special Prosecutor, the judges of things by defeating Avery (either at the third district court saw the need a Constitutional grand jury of convention or in the primary elec-citizens. ed. 11 s i 4 : t r. fr What have we gotten ourselves into here in Salt Lake County and in the State? Attorney General Romney has publicly more ramifications, apparently, that have not yet been made clear to THE UTAH INDEPENDENT, but it appears that Pete Grundfossen was working over the civil division of the County At- torneys office to smooth the way for Van Dam to get rid of Avery. Given all the above background, one must ask why County Attorney R. Paul Van Dam felt that he should not reveal the truth about: 1. The fact that he has been having trouble with Avery ever since Van Dam took office in January. 2. The fact that far from wanting approval of a contract with Grundfossen. so that Grundfossen could begin work in stated that the liquor scandal in- volves elected people in high positions, presumably in State government; and it now emerges that County Attorney 'Van Dam was engaging in some kind of cover-u- p, both when I interviewed him and when he was on the Sean Kiley program on KSXX radio. Even though Van Dam is new at the elected job of being County Attorney, it seems that during the e'ght years he spent in the com- bined service of District and County Attorneys he would have learned the value of telling the truth to constituents and to the press. In addition to being an elected official who has sworn to uphold the law, he is an officer of the court, as is anyone admitted to the bar, and his callous disregard for openness and frankness is sub- Ject to sevcre question, at least. Even the very survival of the Communist World rests upon the willingness and production of the Free World to support it. ANNOUNCING KLAT LISTEN TO i i 7 KHMER REPUBLIC Dear Editor: 4. terrorism and torture for the safety of government-controlle- d areas, j Khmer the Today, people afqf suffering the punishment dealt to weak nations who dare to oppose superior forces with little but hope and a determination to remain free from Communist subjugation. But in recent weeks, as the anoffen-ha- s nual Communist reached its zenith, the Khmer people have been dealt harsh news by their American friends. Knowing their food and munitions to be nearly depleted, the Khmer people have been led to expect no more from American coffers. Are the Khmer people now to be told that their five years of agony have been for nothing? Must the choice, to which both ballots and mile upon mile of be refugees give testimony, ignored? Must the Khmers now submit meekly to Hanoi-directCommunist domination because they are denied the materiel to continue by the one nation able to provide it? We Cambodians now appeal to the compassion and generosity of the American Congress and the American people.To the Congress we direct our please for the additional military and humanitarian aid necessary if we are to continue our struggle. We hope that each am sending you an Open Letter to the American People" which I feel is of special interest to you particularly at this time when the United States Congress is about to determine the fate of seven million Cambodian people by choosing whether to give or deny them aid. I would very much appreciate your kindness to publish it in THE UTAH INDEPENDENT for the information of your readers because our voice, the voice of the Cambodians, victims of the war. is Vietnamese rarely heard, If you decide to publish it, I sanctuaries on Khmer soil. On would be greatly indebted to you June 30. 1970 the Americans and and would appreciate receiving a South Vietnamese left. copy. But the war continued. Alone, We ask for your understan- - the Khmer people fought to defend ding and compassion. their sovereignty and freedom. By their involvement in the cruel and Truly yours, devastating war, the Khmers ach Peang-MetA. Gaffar tually kept elements of six Viet-con- g and North Vietnamese press & Information Attache divisions occupied troops which Embassy of the Khmer Republic could otherwise have been thrown Washington, D.C. against United States forces in South Vietnam. It was Khmer lives, blood and suffering which assisted the United States to speed up will urge his its own withdrawal from South American Vietnam as well as hasten the Congressman to vote for adaid for the Khmer release of American prisoners of ditional fate of scven mdhon people in the war. From the American Republic. Khmer Republic by choosing The Americans left South people we also ask for donations to whether to give or to deny military be forwarded to the Cambodian Vietnam and the Communist Vietand humanitarian aid to the Cross through the namese stubbornly stayed on in Red Khmer people, a review of the Cambodia, fighting Khmer forces International Red Cross, so that situation in that unhappy land is our many thousands of refugees and actively implementing a Comcalled for. munist System alien to the Khmer can be adequately cared for. Five years ago. dissatisfied culture, traditions, and way of life. Checks should be made payable to with the countrys economic ban- " The intervening years have the Khmer Refugees' Fund. not been kind to the Khmer people. Receipts will be sent promptly to Relatively little in the way of aid all donors. has been asked or given as they In the name of the Khmer people, have waged a debilitating struggle we thank you very much. Hanoi-inspire- d Comagainst munist forces. Nevertheless, tens A. Gaffar Peang-Met- h of thousands of Khmers have Embassy of the Khmer Republic 4500 - 16th St.. N.W. voted" with their feet at any op!! ! fleeing Communist Washington. D.C. 20011 portunity. ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION I high-spirite- ed Viet-congNo- rth dry-seas- on ed t LARRY WILCOX LARRY WILCOX MYSTERY PERSONALITY OTHER ANOTHER zone kruptcy and with Cambodia's servitude to the 60,000 Viet-con- g North Vietnamese troops whom Sihanouk allowed to be installed on Khmer territory, the Khmer people, through their Parliament, constitutionally voted Sihanouk out of office. Sihanouk quickly sided with the Communist d but Vietnamese. The and badly equipped small Khmer army accepted the challenge. And so the Vietnam war spilled into Cambodia, On April 30. 1970 the United States and the South Vietnamese armed forces made a two month incursion into Cambodia and seized enormous quantities of VCNVN arms, ammunition, medical and food supplies, and destroyed CAMBODIANS DIAL 1600 ON YOUR RADIO CONVERSE WITH: 1. 2. 3. Communist TALK RADIO I ; refugees fleeing RETURNS MARCH 17, 1975 f i ! Khmer 8:30 - 11:00 11:00 AM -- 1:00 1 - 3 3- 5 4 To Talk With Them Call: BEST of Talk Rebroadcast Evenings and Saturdays 292-722- AM PM PM PM t Our federal government, according to the Constitution, was supposed to be responsible for the common defense and not for our medical care; responsible for maintaining our domestic tranquility and not for our schools and their busing and educating; responsible for promoting but not for supplying our general welfare; responsible fof preserving the blessings of liberty and. not for imposing controls of requirement nor restriction on our private affairs and our businesses; responsible for forming a more perfect union of our several states and not for unionizing the states into one federal union monopoly. But because it has become so involved and so busy doing what it isnt supposed to be doing, it isnt doing what it is supposed to do. Restore the Constitution, to restore an American government to the United States, or soon there will neither be an America nor Americans. |