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...Khmer Rouge Leader Khieu Samphan gives a rare interview...
...Khmer Rouge Communists were driven out of Phnom-Penh in January 1979 by the superior firepower of invading Vietnamese armies. Since then, from camps in remote jungle areas, they have carried on a bitter struggle against their ancient ethnic enemies. Last week the Khmer Rouge-perhaps the world's most secretive and xenophobic Marxists -allowed a small group of Western journalists, including TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, to visit one of their bases inside Cambodia. Anxious to placate world opinion, which was appalled by reports that they had slaughtered millions of their own people, the Khmer Rouge...
Samphan's doctoral dissertation, written in Paris in the 1950s, provided the ideological basis for some of the Khmer Rouge's most radical policies, like Cambodia's complete withdrawal from the world economy. Three months ago, he became supreme leader of Democratic Kampuchea (as the Khmer Rouge call Cambodia), succeeding notorious ex-Premier Pol Pot, who nonetheless still commands the guerrilla army. In a lengthy statement to visiting journalists, Samphan claimed that the Khmer Rouge has a fighting force of 50,000, a figure that is far in excess of most Western estimates. He called for unity...
...Iowa Shares. Some 50,000 tons of food and medical supplies have been shipped to Phnom-Penh and Kompong Som in Cambodia by relief agencies throughout the world. But Cambodia's government is holding up distribution because of fears the aid will end up in the hands of Khmer Rouge rebels. "Most of it is still in warehouses," says Lincoln Bloomfield, head of the National Security Council's Office of Global Affairs...
January 10: Vietnam mounts offensive against remaining Khmer Rouge guerillas, overrun Thailand, China re-invades Vietnam. Dalai Lama urges India to sieze opportunity to free Tibet by invading China. Sen. Edward Kennedy releases a statement condemning China and Vietnam, but noting that Pol Pot's government had murdered millions of Cambodians prior to Vietnamese intervention. Opinion polls next day reveal that Kennedy slips a further ten per cent against President Carter...