Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great moral issues of our time," the agony of the refugees spilling out of Cambodia and the other Indochinese countries. She plunged into camps housing thousands of sick and dying people, cradled undernourished infants in her arms and tried to feed them, kneeled before rows of hunger-weakened human castoffs lying on the ground. Toward the end of her three-day tour, she conceded that the experience was "devastating." It was very difficult for her, she said, "as a wife, as a mother and as a human being...
...groundwork was laid earlier this year at a Moscow meeting between Sakharov and a member of Poland's major human rights organization, the Committee for Social Self-Defense (KOR). After that, KOR publicly expressed solidarity with Soviet dissidents, and 15 Polish protesters staged a hunger strike on behalf of the Charter 77 organizers before their Prague trial...
Members of the Harvard Hunger Action Committee (HHAC), noted a high consciousness on the Cambodian situation and an encouraging response to the fast effort. "Once students recovered from the shock of what's happening, they've gotten more and more upset and are realizing that money must be made somehow." Manva Blumberg '81, a member of the HHAC said yesterday. "The participation in the fast has been really, really excellent, more than ever before, as two-thirds of the student body responded in some way." Carina Campobasso '81, another member of the group, added...
...army marshal with mystical tendencies. Even with an infusion of U.S. supplies, Lon Nol proved unable to cope with the Vietnamese and the growing guerrilla army of the Khmer Rouge. The five years of fighting that followed put Cambodia well on its way to the cruel hunger of today. By 1974 the U.N.'s World Health Organization and the U.S. Senate Refugees Subcommittee reported that malnutrition was already a severe problem...
Cambodia's years of genocide were over, but the hunger problem was made worse, if possible, by the Vietnamese conquest. Hanoi's forces, numbering about 180,000, found themselves locked in a war with 20,000 to 30,000 dogged Khmer Rouge guerrillas, who still control much of the countryside. As a result of the continuing war, food has become a weapon on both sides. The Khmer Rouge routinely ravage the new paddyfields planted under the Vietnamese occupation. Not only are the Cambodians starving, but even the Vietnamese troops are said to be on short rations. Many of the Khmer...