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Monday, October 8, 1990 The Battalion WRebels receive Chinese tanks Page 13 Koriyama an- Khmer Rouge plans attack SiEM REAP PROVINCE, Cam bodia (AP) — Bolstered by their first shipments of Chinese tanks, Khmer Rouge guerrillas are preparing a major attack to seize an area consid- erec j Cambodia’s most important uhural and historic region. After making major gains in rural areas in the past year, the Khmer Rouge now are shifting to conventio nal milit ar y tactics to seize cities and key economic regions, Western mili tary analysts say. The rebel* recently took the key government artillery base at Sre Noi, and now say they are preparing to attack Bantei Srei, the last major government position defending the provincial capital of Siem Reap and the nearby Angkor Wat temples, the iymbol of Cambodian civilization. The rebels have massed tanks, heavy guns and troops to attack gov ernment defenses in this northwest- n province, according to field mmanders and Khmer Rouge fighters interviewed in the guerrilla zone. A recent 10-day, 190-mile trek through guerrilla-held area near Angkor Wat showed the rebels had overrun important positions and moved freely through villages less than an hour’s drive from the Siem Reap provincial capital. “We were ordered to attack Ban tei Srei this month and then we will attack Siem Reap,’’said Bong Thieun, a young Khmer Rouge sol dier interviewed at Sre Noi. Khmer Rouge bulldozers and chainsaws are carving tank and truck roads through the jungles toward Angkor Wat. “What we see happening in Siem Reap is alarming,” said a Western military intelligence analyst. “They are using a strategy different from anywhere else. It looks like a real move to take Siem Reap.” Analysts said the capture of Siem Reap and Angkor Wat would be a major psychological victory. Thai and Western sources, speak ing on condition of anonymity, said' China’s secret delivery of 24 tanks is the first such shipment ever to the guerrillas. Dozens of the Communist rebels have returned to the jungles from China, where they were trained to operate tanks, they said. The sources said 12 tanks are at the Khmer Rouge-controlled district capital of Andung Veng, the staging area for the offensive against Siem Reap. The other 12 are near the Khmer Rouge-held town of Pailin in western Battambang province. I he guerrillas also have received scores of Chinese jeeps, transport trucks, and heavy weapons. The Khmer Rouge has relied on Chinese arms in the nearly 12-year- old war against the Vietnamese-in stalled government armed by the So viet Union. Hundreds of thousands of people died during the Khmer Rouge’s fa natical Communist rule from 1975 until Vietnam invaded in late 1978. Areas of the country’s north are under the control of former mon arch Prince Norodom Sihanouk, whose guerrillas are allied with the Khmer Rouge and a third rebel group. Sihanouk has wide support among peasants, and several thou sand of his troops move freely through scores of isolated rural vil lages. to. It :reasf, ay to a Sian hesta r Pen jack- for itt ost lit isassn Heir; hot. for lit Supreme Court adopts Souter despite intense media coverage CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — His presumed ideology has been con demned on all sides, his housekeep ing has been derided and his neck ties have been likened to dishrags, but David Souter’s friends say he is a man content with himself who won’t change when he joins the Supreme Court this week. “Goodness no, that’s like saying that Gibraltar could be changed by a rainstorm,” said Sen. Warren Rud- man, R-N.H., who preceded Souter as state attorney general and sat be hind him all through Senate confir mation hearings. “David Souter’s foundations and values have been built over 51 years,” Rudman said. “David hasn’t changed at all and will not change at all.” The 51-year-old ascetic bachelor’s life has been turned upside down in the past few months as he went from a little-known regional jurist to one of the nation’s nine most powerful judges. Liberals and conservatives alike have voiced suspicions that he’ll vote against them on abortion, civil rights and other social issues. Journalists have scrutinized everything from his suits to how he’ll cope with crime, noise and high real estate prices in the nation’s capital. But friends say he ultimately will be the soft-spoken, even-tempered man he always has been whether he is in Weare, N.H., or Washington, where he moved this weekend to get ready to join the court Tuesday. “He’s in a constant whirl of change, but he will be himself wherever he is. ... He is satisfied with who he is,” said Concord lawyer Tom Rath, Souter’s deputy and suc cessor as attorney general. Throughout a barrage of public and media scrutiny that began when President Bush nominated him to the court July 23, Souter remained olite, almost courtly, to anyone who egged a minute. Continued from page 3 hair once he gets back to Japan. Pointing to a male student sport ing a small ponytail, Irumagawa said he wants to grow his hair long so he can have “one of those.” Irumagawa said he also learned the United States is not as dangerous as many Japanese people think. “I found a new knowledge in America; many Japanese think America is dangerous, but I don’t think that’s true,” Irumagawa said. He explained that the only knowl edge most Japanese have about the United States is through television, which tends to be violent. Takizawa said a difference he no ticed between Japan and the United States is weekends. “In the United States, the week end is very exciting — lots of par ties,” he said, grinning. “In Japan there is nothing like this, the week ends are for playing sports or sleep ing.” Tomoe Ono, a freshman chemis try major, said she was surprised to see that clothes U.S. students wear to class are very different from their Japanese counterparts. If Japanese students saw the jeans and T-shirts most U.S. students'wear to class, they’d laugh, Ono said. She said most Japanese students are very fashion-conscious, spend lots of money on clothes and dress more formally. She said most women wear expensive skirts and blouses to class everyday, and men wear nice pants. Ono also said she noticed U.S. stu dents have a lot of pride in their LIniversity. She said in Japan the stu dents were told that when they go to A&M, certain things upset U.S. stu dents. Ono formed the infamous “hook ’em horns” sign of the University of Texas at Austin, and said: “I heard if you make this sign, they get very an- gry-” Maruyama, Irumagawa, Takizawa and Ono agreed they had a great time visiting A&M’s College Station campus. Ono said she did not want to go back to Japan. “I love Texas A&M University —I promise I will come back here,” she said. a chi I raik team evti OTIC if m n Loit :he» lilarrc lith 'i lies a:: : ensci: role fa bight) hartls tocos rftb* Itvcfe I'm st antttl to l* uniott isabS SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS ADVANCE YOUR CAREERS VIA A UNIQUE GRADUATE SCHOOL • M.S. (1 -Vz years) and Ph. D. 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