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...home in a tweed three-piece suit, especially for one who didn't enjoy the strains of daily journalism. "Daily journalism is very bad in terms of giving scope and finding out what the hell is going on," says Shawcross. So in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge overran neighboring Cambodia, and Shawcross began to get horror stories from the refugees he talked with, he returned to London wondering "who these people were and how they had gotten this way." He persuaded his editors at the Sunday Times to let him report further...
...wrote what many say is history at its best, Shawcross doesn't like to look behind. He worries about what is going on in Cambodia now. He worries about British reporters who, bound and gagged by that country's Official Secrets Act, will never gain access to documents that Americans can poke into...
...lifeblood of his work--must be broadened. Angered by the Supreme Court's decision to keep Kissinger's memoirs under wraps in the sacred tombs of the Library of Congress, he hopes that other people will do for the rest of Kissinger's work what he did for Cambodia...
Thirty-one organizations--including Oxfam--have distributed about $20 million of aid to Cambodia. Oxfam America contributed approximately $4 million of this total. Len Seligman, a fundraiser for Oxfam America, said yesterday Oxfam raised about $10,000 at Harvard through its annual fast...
Short said he was disappointed that Congress cut the aid President Carter had promised to Cambodia from $69 to $30 million in its effort to balance the budget. Short added he believes the U.S. government has been hesitant to aid the Cambodian people, fearing it would help consolidate the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia's communist government...