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...truck convoy loaded with rice, salted fish, soybeans, sugar and medical supplies left Bangkok for the Thai-Cambodian border. On Christmas Day, William Simbro, a reporter for the Des Moines Register, met in a jungle clearing with representatives from Sok Sann, a refugee settlement just inside Cambodia, and presented them with some surgical instruments. The rest of the supplies reached Sok Sann last week...
...also said that in a recent trip to Cambodia with other congresswomen she found the food being shipped to relieve the famine is not being distributed because of governmental problems in the country
...time when the authority of the state and of law will be challenged as it had not been since the dawn of the modern era, a time of fiscal and economic upheavals, and, possibly, of yet more mass slaughter on the scale perpetrate by Nazi Germany and Communist Cambodia...
...achieving nothing but proving once again that Communists have their own explosive quarrels. Hanoi's Soviet-backed rulers expelled hundreds of thousands of its ethnic Chinese citizens, many of whom drowned at sea; survivors landed on the shores of nations that could not handle such onslaughts of refugees. In Cambodia, the Vietnamese-backed regime of Heng Samrin was proving little better than the maniacal Chinese-supported dictatorship of Pol Pot that it had deposed. Hundreds of thousands of Cambodians still faced death by starvation or disease as the year ended, despite huge relief efforts organized by the outside world...
WASHINGTON--The United Nations' World Food Program has apparently halted its food shipments to Cambodia because bottlenecks are preventing distribution of the goods to hungry Cambodians, the State Department said yesterday...