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U nited By Leroy Williams Gamecock Staff Wrftar A State Department official said last week the United States has a debt to pay to Cambodia for the involuntary role the now war-torn country played in the Vietnam conflict. Andrew Antippas, deputy dir*?plor of fh#? Kamniinhpan (Cambodian) Working Group, said the United States has obligations to send relief to Cambodians because America deserted the country after the Vietnam war. Cambodia was dragged into the conflict and left to fend for itself when the war ended, he said. CAMBODIA REMAINED neutral to the problems in Vietnam until 1970, when North Vietnamese troops crossed the Cambodian border and set up temporary bases. The United States recognized Cambodia's neutrality but conducted bombing raids on the Vietnamese bases, which resulted in the deaths of many Cambodians. The Kampuchean Working Group is striving to provide food and medical supplies for the millions of displaced persons in uamDocna, Anuppassaia. Antippas, who has been with the Senate canc congressio By Karen Gamecock S The U.S. congressmen implicate* compared to drug addicts, USC Gov professor William Kreml, candidate public forum. Kreml said congressmen need a \ mo r?o on/4 u ADCPA \/i nn r?#\4 Ka rvn j tai o aiiu nuov^riiti may uui uc of needing the money for re-election At the forum, held at the Carolina Government ? 1980," Kreml said h point out the fundamental reasons government, calling for congression Kreml said Congress is unable to inflation as well questions of hospita not developing any major legislati loyalty in Congree," Kreml said. "The constitution has served the I years. However, it is beginning tc constitution should be reviewed, he a KREML WOULD LIKE to see a c order to have political parties d primarily to deal with congress," he Other speakers at the forum inch University, Robert McClure of Syra of North Carolina-Greensboro and Each speaker dealt with the disinter McClure called for shortening tl paign, lengthening the president's possibility of re-election and consi Constitution. "The Constitution wa: an 18th century society," he said. Schaefer suggested political ca financing, "which would strenghten impact of special interest groups." Olson discussed comparative Sweden and Great Britain. While another country, a European parlit to investigate the scandal," he said. The true story that tws captivated over 8,000,000 read's. I nn.* THE HIDING PLACE.. ?" VI-. .. JOLIE HARRIS 1 EILEEN HECKART ARTHUR O'COflMElL *" l-ii ?\>t -i f JEAHNF.TTE CLIH I M ; The Hiding Place Thurs., Feb. 28 7:00 p.m. j State I States ov State Deoartment since 19fi0. said Cambodia's deterioration began in 1975 when the Pol Pot communist regime took power. "Most of Cambodia's middle class was destroyed during Pol Pot's regime," Antippas said. "The Cambodians are a passive people; no one understood what Pol Pot i was about." I DURING POL POT'S takeover, families were separated and national institutions were destroyed. When the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and defeated Pol Pot, the people were told to return to their villages, Antippas nru.-. Dnl dctiu. i lie v.un^ucicu i \ji l 1 destroyed food and the Vietnamese took what was left, he said. When the Vietnamese invasion began, Cambodia's rice harvest i was destroyed. "The people were | left to get what food was left,'' he j said. "Last spring, only 10 percent | of the farmable land was planted." Antipass said the United States has spent $65 million on Cambodian support. One-third of the money was for direct relief of Cambodians in Thailand. The other two-thirds was for UNICEF, the World Food Program and the International Commission of the m m. -m [idate wants nal reform > Geney tall Writer d in the ABSCAM scandal can be ernment and International Studies for the U.S. Senate, said at a recent large amount of funding every two rsonal corruption, but just a matter funds." Townhouse, entitled "the American ? entered the senatorial campaign to for the deadlock of the American al reform. deal with questions of energy and 1 cost and tax reform. "Congress is ion and there is very little party JIIIIVU UUIICO CALI ClilCI) WC1I 1U1 li)U > show its age," Kreml said. The idded. ommission study the constitution in efined. 'I would like the review said. ided William Schaefer of American cuse, David Olson of the University I John Stolarek, a USC professor, ration of the political party. he length of the presidential cam- 1 term to six or eight years with no dering serious amendments to the s written by 18th century minds for mrvnirtno - iiipaigns uc UCp^IIUCIIL UI1 pUUHC i the role of the party and reduce the legislative systems, particularly Watergate could have happened in iment "would never have been able ?worW wvii putoH pf tit ft) I font i other person was all he needed. One. Som?howj..tt could be svctvonc'i ttorv. I Time to Run Wed., Feb. 27 7:00p.m. ARANATHA CHRISTIAN CENTER Corner of Pickens & Blossom Columbia Phone 799 1422 ? ? department officio _ 3 ves war d Red Cross, he said. There were "between 15,000 and 20,000 Cambodians inside the Thai border" last fall Antippas said. The Parnhnrlinn tvtnnlaHnn in 1 Q7fl wn<s 7.1 million and as many as half of that number have since died, he said. 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