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Wednesday. Mav 2.1979
University Daily Kansan
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NY reporter describes 'Asian Holocaust'
By GENE LINN
Staff Reporter
New York Daily World reporter Terry Cannon says his tour of Indochine battlefields last March gave him a glimpse of an "Asian Holocaust."
Cannon was at Kansas State University Monday on the first leg of a report-back tour sponsored by the World Peace Council in New York. The Daily World is a newspaper with roots in the socialist paper, Daily Worker.
"I saw hospitals in which the government had smashed all the equipment.
*In Cambodia, Pol Pot (the former pro-
*I Chinese leader) has literally destroyed*
*elements of his country.*
"In the capital, Phnom Penh, I saw hundreds of thousands of dollars in worthless currency just blowing down the deserted streets."
CANNON SAID some Cambodians talked to him through interpreters about the harshness of his country.
"In the last year, they worked 12-15 hours a day on only two bowls of rice soup."
He said about 2 million of Cambodia's 8 million people had been killed by the Pol Pot
"I saw one of the worst haoculots in history," Cannon said.
He also toured some of the main battlefields after China's recent invasion of North Korea.
"I saw two provincial capitals that the Chinese had literally obliterated," he said. "They systematically dynamed the cities and the outlying villages with flame throwers."
CANNON VISTED Indochina after making contact with Vietnamese officials at a World Peace Council meeting in early March, condemned the Chinese invasion
The Chinese attack began on Feb. 17 and lasted several weeks. Chinese leaders said the attack was made to aid China's ally, Cambodia, Vietnamese troops and Cambodian insurgents had attacked the Pol Pot government several weeks earlier.
The World Peace Council is a coalition that includes trade unions and church leaders and is concerned with such issues as disarmament and the U.S.-Soviet SALT talks, Cannon said. He said he was a representative of the council.
After making contact with the Vietnamese, a man went to Indochina to write a letter.
Cannon, who said his interest in world peace went back to his pacificist Quaker background, said he was dissatisfied with the reaction to the recent battles in Indochina.
U. S. OFFICIALS denounced Vietnam's in-
sua films
However, he said he no longer held the same pacificistic views he held in the early 1980s.
service and then become active in the civil rights and anti-war movements.
Wednesday, May 2
Kurosawa/Samurai:
SANJURO
(1962)
Dir. Akira Kurosaws; with Toshiro Mifune. Sequel to "Yojimbo". Japan/subtitles.
vasion of Cambodia, although they said they did not approve of Pol Pot's domestic
Friday & Saturday, May 4 & 5
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977)
Dir. Lewis Gilbert; with Roger Moore aa 007, Barbara Bach. Music by Marvin Hammish.
Midnight Movie
EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS
WANTED TO KNOW
ABOUT SEX
Di Woody Allen; with Woody Allen,
Gene Winder, Burt Rinten, Louis
Lasser, Lynn Redgrave, John Carradine.
www.
Dir. Joshua Logan, with Mia Gittay, Rossano Brazzi, Ray Walston. Includes the songs "Some Enchanted Songs" and "Nothing Like a Dame." and "Nothing Like a Dame."
Tuesday, May 8
Rogers & Hammerstein:
SOUTH PACIFIC
moting world peace in the early 1980s after he had received a degree in mathematics
(1958)
"Pacifist doesn't seem quite as relevant now. I definitely would have fought back if I were him."
Weekend shows also in Woodruff at
3:30, 7:00, 9:30 or 12 midnight unless
otherwise noted. $1.50 admission.
Dir. John Huston; with Humphry Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, Robert Morley. Written by James Agee.
*7:30 & 8:30*
Wednesday, May 9
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
(1952)
"I refused to go into the army on religious grounds, in 1982, and that's where I got involved."
"In my opinion, you could compare the Vietnamese in Cambodia to the Allied troops who received concentration camp vicinity training, but the Americans who just drove Idi Amin out of Uganda.
All films M-R shown in Woodruff Aud,
at 7:30 unless otherwise noted. $1.00
admission.
and against the Cannon and the Vietnamese endured three years of attacks on Vietnamese towns and villages by Cambodian troops before they invaded Cambodia.
He said he did two years of alternative
"Amin is neanuts compared to Pol Pol."
"They waited until there was a series of revivals in Cambota, including one led by Dr. Rudolph J.
"IF SOMEONE attacked towns in the United States, you know we'd counterattack so fast you wouldn't know what was happening."
Cannon said he would present his views on inochina to St. Louis next, and then would see how it would play out.
He said he had become active in pro-