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...refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia and local experts last night told tales of escape from communist troops and described the terrifying conditions in Southeast Asia to a small crowd at the Science Center...
Nowhere was the U.N. revolt against Moscow more apparent than in the breakdown of the voting itself. Of the 18 countries opposing the resolution, only one -tiny Grenada, with a population of 100,000-was not ruled by a Communist regime. (Among Communist states, China, Cambodia, Yugoslavia and Albania voted against Moscow.) Fully 57 members of the Nonaligned Movement, over which Cuba currently presides, supported the resolution, and only nine followed the Soviet line. Among Muslim countries, the swing was even more drastic. Eighteen condemned the Soviet action and only two, Afghanistan and South Yemen, opposed the majority...
Presidents have used maps on TV before. John Kennedy and Richard Nixon pointed to the political borders and battlefronts of Indochina as they briefed the nation on their policies toward Laos and Cambodia, respectively. But Kennedy and Nixon were used to thinking and talking geopolitically. Their careers took shape in the 1950s, when the entire globe was starkly and simplistically color-coded to differentiate the free world from the Communist bloc, and when America's unquestioned obligation was to keep the Red stain from spreading...
...During your campaign, you were quoted as saying that you would recognize the [Hanoi-backed Heng Samrin] government in Cambodia...
...attempts have been as successful as Iowa Shares. Some 50,000 tons of food and medical supplies have been shipped to Phnom-Penh and Kompong Som in Cambodia by relief agencies throughout the world. But Cambodia's government is holding up distribution because of fears the aid will end up in the hands of Khmer Rouge rebels. "Most of it is still in warehouses," says Lincoln Bloomfield, head of the National Security Council's Office of Global Affairs...