Monday, April 3, 1972

Lon Nol Raps Students

PHNOM PENH (AP) --Cambodia"s President Lon Nol has denounced Cambodian students who claimed the military police shot into their midst Thursday, killing one student and wounding at least 16 others.

Lon Nol, in a radio broadcast, claimed that the firing had actually come from street across from the besieged law school. Eyewitnesses have reported that military police fired into the crowd.

The marshal appealed to students to abandon a protest rally at the city"s Independence Monument.






"Lon Nol Raps Students", by (AP), published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes on Sunday, April 30, 1972 and reprinted from European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, a Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.
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