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: Pa '.spol nis wiclg J in tlie 'i'll lorli arine aul pine, Saigon. icnceatuM i Monty f ■ could msonew- >- ovidencf®^ aining Danielsi lill, Hi ontgonw] n's dclet nber ofi| CommiltJ ist his $ Battalion photo by Karen Thompson d elate | lid. tgomenl decided-I y said. Hanging in there John Kerr, a junior genetics major from Midland, is participat ing in the Army Summer Compression Program at A&M. This five-week program, which is geared mainly toward transfer students, allows a student to qualify for advanced ROTC. Russians say U.S. delays talks United Press International MOSCOW — A Soviet commen tator, saying the U.S. administra tion takes its promises “extremely lightly," Tuesday accused the White House of deliberately dragging out the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. In an editorial in the Soviet Communist Party daily Pravda, Pro fessor I. Kremer said President Car ter is engaging in a “demonstration of muscles” in the hope of capturing votes for his party in November’s congressional elections. He warned that in the Soviet view, the U.S. leadership is drag ging European allies down a “dangerous path which will lead to a “reinforcement of confrontation. "The American administration, which more than a year ago declared its desire for a radical arms reduc tion, is in fact adopting maneuvers to drag out under various pretexts definitive agreement on outstanding questions at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT),” Pravda said. “Especial concern is provoked in this respect by the fact that the leaders of the present U.S. adminis tration take their promises and obli gations extremely lightly. “Everything was there. A prom ise to cut present defense spending by $5-7 billion per year and the in tention as soon as possible to con clude an agreement with the Soviet Union on the freezing of further de velopments of armaments and other important plans and promises. THE BATTALION Page 7B WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23. 1978 hai officials report heavy Mighting with Communists United Press International \tVi LAHANSA1 ’ Thai,and — The 1¥|well-paved, two-lane highway to J^mahansai passes through green rice elds and tall cassava (manioc) juves. It seems remote from the vio- nce of Communist revolution — ntil a car slows and swerves to vdid a gaping hole blown in a ridge three days before by a land line. Officials say the Thai govern- nenfs battle with Communist in- lurgents in areas like this along the ambodian border has reached a racial stage. The Communists are /Ing to convert their political in- iluence into military control. “There is fighting every day. Mostofit never gets reported in the ress,' said district officer Capt. iVirapan Jangksri. “Only the large ittacks ever get noticed in 'i”, • „ , i “ In the last six months, large-scale hacks in this Cambodian border listrict 200 miles northeast of iangkok have picked up consid erably, Wirapan said. Cambodian roops are backing the insurgents. ’ietnam» bstaclei their Ira ? peopll mies efi tnam ive miff ludwlk Ranltoj liinafe ows icre are i,” heal ovieti® “One attack recently involved about 50 Thai Communist guerrillas and about 150 regular Cambodian troops, he said. Witnesses told him the Thais mostly wore green uni forms while the Cambodians were in black and spoke Cambodian. Along with the upsurge in terror attacks the Communists have turned to an age-old battle tac tic be tween Thailand and Cambodia — mass kidnappings. First used by both the Thai and Khmer kingdoms to provide labor and soldiers over four centuries ago, mass kidnappings in the past six months have taken over 800 Thai villagers to insurgent camps inside Communist Cambodia. Tawin Boonsom, a 43-year-old cassava planter, said: “The communists have given out pamphlets and warned everyone. The pamphlets say this is a battle zone. They said the Communists can protect ns from the govern ment soldiers only if we go with them. They say we will have good land to farm in a safe place.” That “safe place, Thai officials said, is Cambodia. Shopkeepers in the sleepy district town and in the nearby market place of Bangrpat said many people had left the district and business was terrible. Agricultural Extension agent Songserm Hoiuthai said “many farmers felt exploited by the Chinese middlemen who control cassava and rice prices so they felt sympathetic to the Communists. "But now the Communists have made them afraid to go into the forest to plant their crops. Some times people go to their fields and never come back.” But Lahansai Police tThief Maj. Suthi Kasuwan said, "The Com munists have made a mistake. In discriminate terror has not cowed the villagers, it has made them fight back. Suthi, who carries grenade shrapnel in one arm from a Com munist ambush, said, “If the com munists didn’t use such tough methods we would have a difficult time getting the villagers to help us. 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