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Dates: during 1970-1979
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International relief agencies, along with the European Community, Japan, Australia, Britain and the U.S. are mounting a substantial rescue operation expected to cost $110 million over the next six months. State Department officials in Washington said last week that the U.S. will give $7 million in emergency food and money as an initial contribution. Two bills are pending in the House of Representatives, one authorizing $20 million in Cambodian relief for fiscal 1980, the other providing for $30 million. Says Republican Representative John B. Anderson of Illinois, co-sponsor of the latter measure: "If we fail to mobilize the resources...
...December 1978, Viet Nam invaded Cambodia, swiftly managed to depose Pol Pot and installed Samrin as President. In fierce fighting against the surviving Khmer Rouge cadres, food became a military weapon on both sides. Explained a Western military analyst in Bangkok last week: "If you can't grow food, you can't eat, and if you can't eat, you can't fight." Rice crops have been destroyed and planting new fields has become dangerous. Pol Pot's forces harass farmers in areas controlled by Viet Nam, while the Vietnamese do their best to prevent...
Iran's state radio and television last week once again attacked Western news organizations. This time, Tehran's anger was directed against those who "raise hell when Iran punishes murderers but shut up when the best youths of Iran are murdered by agents of Zionism and imperialism." That was a reference to the fact that newsmen in Tehran had paid little attention to an ambush by Kurdish rebels in which 52 Islamic militiamen were killed. But if the Western press is not to be trusted, why then did the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini sit for an interview with Italian...
...interview with Fallaci was only the second that Khomeini has given to a Western journalist since his return from Pans last February (the first was to Eric Rouleau of Le Monde, in May). Fallaci's article was first published in the Milan daily Corriere della Sera, and appeared last week in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. The interview was also reprinted in two Tehran newspapers...
Although the interview, done in Fallaci's characteristically provocative style does not reflect it, she told TIME last week that she was impressed by Khomeini's great dignity and splendid bearing It was the first time that I have ever felt charisma." She was surprised by "the difference between the reality I saw there surrounding the Ayatullah and the way the Western press reports on him. The reality is that the people want...