Word: clarks
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Cambodia is a haunted land full of wrenching memories for Marsh Clark, chief of TIME's Hong Kong bureau. As Saigon bureau chief from 1968 to 1970, and on numerous later assignments, Clark watched the inexorable advance of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army as it seized power in 1975 and began systematically to erase Cambodian civilization. Painfully he remembers when Sean Flynn, son of Movie Star Errol Flynn, headed for the front on a photographic assignment for TIME in 1970, where he was captured by Khmer forces and, like 21 other missing colleagues, never heard from again...
...There is no serious question," says Clark, "that the Khmer Rouge in attempting to establish a new Cambodia-without family ties, without mail, telephones or even money-committed a form of genocide unknown to mankind since the Holocaust. Yet, one cannot look at the condition of these people today without a sense of anguish. A starving baby minutes away from death has no responsibility or knowledge of Cambodian politics. What human cruelties and failings, one wonders, have reduced tens of thousands of people to the state of dumb, brute animals...
With assistance from Thai officials anxious to bring world attention to the tragedy on their border, Clark found his way to the rude camps where Cambodian refugees have huddled. He watched as the tattered forces of the once mighty Khmer Rouge staggered across the border. Together with TIME Stringer John Burgess, he managed to cross into Cambodia itself...
...envoys, former U.S. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark and William Miller, a Senate Intelligence Committee staff member, were carrying a personal message from President Carter to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The letter asked for the Ayatollah's help in freeing the hostages, held since Sunday by students demanding that the United States return the exiled Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi to Iran for trial...
...Clark and Miller will remain in Turkey indefinitely, "pending clarification" from Tehran. Hodding Carter said yesterday. Iranian officials say they will not receive the envoys unless the Shah is returned. The Shah is currently undergoing cancer treatment in New York City...