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Student Activists for Cambodia (SAC) is recruiting medical personnel, including Harvard Medical School students, to work in Cambodia as part of international relief efforts...
...with a full sense of responsibility that no one is starving in our country.'' With those words, delivered in a Moscow interview last week, the Defense Minister of the Vietnamese-sponsored government of Cambodia blandly dismissed President Carter's pledge to provide $69 million in relief assistance to avert a ''tragedy of genocidal proportion'' taking place in what was once one of Southeast Asia's more peaceful and prosperous nations. Even as Pen Sovan spoke, his claim was being contradicted by eyewitnesses who were driven to tears by the sight of famished...
During the four years that the Khmer Rouge cadres of ousted Premier Pol Pot ruled Cambodia, perhaps half the country's 8 million people died as a result of war, disease or starvation. That enormous death toll has grown since the Vietnamese invasion eleven months ago, which imposed Heng Samrin as Cambodia's new leader. Either because crops had not been planted, or because rice fields were destroyed in the fighting, Cambodia's next rice harvest will be sufficient for only 1.75 million people. The remaining 2.25 million Cambodians face death from starvation or related diseases unless...
...occasional shipborne cargo to reach the port of Kompong Som. But it has refused to permit trucks to arrive from Bangkok lest the vehicles be hijacked by Khmer Rouge troops concentrated along the Thai border. Experts from the International Red Cross and UNICEF Starving child are convinced that Cambodia must use such overland convoys if it is to receive the massive quantities of grain that it needs. The primary reason the three Senators visited Cambodia, in fact, was to try to persuade the Phnom-Penh regime to do just that. But at week's end the ruling People...
Whatever food does manage to reach Cambodia will not arrive a moment too soon. In a brief excursion across the Thai border, TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark discovered that food is so scarce that even Khmer Rouge soldiers are going hungry. ''We crossed a narrow stream that marks the border by walking across a narrow log bridge,'' reported Clark. ''Then we moved cautiously into the village of Ban Rai Kluay, where 5,800 soldiers and civilians once camped. We found only 25 people. Most of them were soldiers too ill to move...