SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1971

Cambodia to Remove Boys
And Women From Combat

PNOMPENH, Cambodia, April 3 (AP)—The Cambodian high command reported today that the nation's armed forces numbered 200,000 troops, and it announced plans to take women and young boys out of combat.

The command's spokesman, Lieut. Col. Am Rong, said the army wants "to get the girls out of the battlefield" and give them office work. At the same time, young soldiers will be taken from combat and given special schooling and training, although some will be allowed to return to the front.

"If they already fight well at that age, they will fight even better with some additional training," Colonel Am Rong said.

Boys as young as 9 years old have been fighting alongside older men since war broke out a year ago. Several thousand women serve in the army, but only a small number in com-