Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anti-war Congressman, who asked to remain unidentified, said yesterday, "Congressmen are undecided and confused on the Cambodian issue. Direct lobbying will be decisive in making up their minds...
Since the coup that swept Prince Sihanouk from power, reporters here have served as the eyes and ears not only of their news organizations but also of the Cambodian government and foreign embassies of the East and West. One Western official refers to the press corps as "our political section." He is only half kidding. Like reconnaissance patrols, newsmen head out each day to where they guess the Communists and the action are. On their return,* they file their stories and then sit down by the pool at the Hotel Royal to swap information over citron presses. Officials...
Correspondents have become involved in other ways since the recent massacres of Vietnamese civilians. After viewing scores of bodies floating down the Mekong River, New York Timesman Henry Kamm and London Timesman Fred Emery each called on a high official in the Cambodian government. They implored him to call off the slaughtering and pointed out that, apart from anything else, the killings were not helping his government's cause. The official promised an investigation...
Delicate Ground. When two newsmen stumbled on to the massacre at Takeo (TIME, April 27) their immediate response was not how to file a story but how to help the survivors. Later, other newsmen stood for several hours as a human shield between the wounded and several hundred nervous Cambodian troops. Finally the correspondents became nervous themselves. When they left, one correspondent's car carried away seven of the wounded...
Next day most of the reporters who had been at Takeo became more deeply involved. Some went off to talk privately with Cambodian authorities; some made the rounds of Western embassies; some returned to the scene of the massacre. The mission in all cases was partly to gather more information, but it was also to try to prevent more killing. Some embassy officials chided newsmen for involving themselves in Cambodian affairs...