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...STARVING CAMBODIANS who are trying by the thousands to flee their country attest to the monumental tragedy that has decimated that Southeast Asian people since the terrorist regime of Pol Pot took power in 1975. Reports from the few Western journalists and relief workers who have entered Cambodia in recent months indicate that the suffering continues under the present Vietnam-dominated Heng Samrin government, which overthrew Pol Pot earlier this year...
Government leaders in the United States have finally taken notice of the Cambodian tragedy, which has taken the lives of an estimated one-half of the population--3 to 4 million people. President Carter last week pledged $67 million in food and medical supplies to be distributed in Cambodia and Thailand by the International Red Cross and UNICEF, and the House approved about half of the aid package...
...Cambodian government refused over the weekend to accept American aid in any form, calling it a "maneuver by the imperialists and international reactionaries" to assist the forces of Pol Pot, which continue to resist the Vietnamese. Cambodia said it was receiving all the help it needs from Vietnam, the Soviet Union, and other Communist nations...
...Cambodia's willingness to let ideological and political considerations supercede fundamental humanitarian concerns is abhorrent. Because of the Heng Samrin regime's intransigence, millions more Cambodians may starve to death...
Fish added that Oxfam-America, which has raised $300,000 for Cambodia so far, does not usually accept government funds, but will consider distributing U.S. aid "this one time only because of the immediate crisis...