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Bizimungu knows time is on his side as long as food donations keep pouring in. Though individual agencies may continue to withdraw, aid workers note that short of stopping relief altogether, their hands are tied. Many recall Cambodia in the late 1970s, when foreign food assistance to refugees on the Thai border enabled the defeated Khmer Rouge to live and fight another day. Rwandans who have already suffered a holocaust now face a choice between starvation or the resumption...
...ballooning world of filmmaking. She worked a graveyard shift as a legal proof-reader on Wall Street, an occupation apparently popular with the starving artists of Manhattan. During this period that she got lucky when she came across a flyer advertising help wanted for Jonathan Demme's Swimming to Cambodia; she took a volunteer position on the editing squad. Demme obviously recognized her talent, because not long after he selected her as assistant editor for "Silence of the Lambs." Her experience impressed enough people at PBS to make her one of the 12 people...
...NIXON -- Cambodia: "I have concluded that the actions of the enemy in the last 10 days clearly endanger the lives of Americans who are in Vietnam...
They are principally congregating in three distinct areas: the Pacific Rim, including not only such thriving hubs as Tokyo and Hong Kong but China, / Vietnam and Cambodia as well; Latin America, especially Mexico, which, thanks to the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement last year, has become a potentially major market for U.S. goods and expertise; and Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union, where capitalism is breaking out all over, often in unpredictable ways. "Only an entrepreneurial student is willing to walk into so unstructured an environment," says consultant Hanigan. "You have the cowboys going...
Just as he loved secrecy, Nixon hated leaks to the press (though he himself was a dedicated leaker to favored reporters). And so when he first ordered an unannounced air raid against communist bases in Cambodia in April 1969, he was furious to read about it in a Washington dispatch in the New York Times. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover told the President that the only way to find the leaker was to start tapping phones. When Nixon entered the White House and dismantled the elaborate taping system that Johnson had installed, Hoover told him that the FBI, on Johnson...