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Because Labbe did not visit the war-torn regions of Cambodia, he saw no actual starvation during his tour, though he says that people are eating "very bad-ly." The Cambodians working for the new regime are being paid in rice and corn. Still, Cambodian refugees in Thailand report that there are hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the outskirts of every Cambodian city because the Vietnamese have forbidden them to return home for fear of encouraging un rest. These families are threatened with starvation, as are the 600,000 refugees along the Thai border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Struggling Back to Life | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Defense attorneys yesterday protested Mundy's arguments on two technical points. They said Mundy failed to prove that the defendants regularly collaborated with prostitutes and imprope ly introduced past crimes as evidence against the accused...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: D.A. Links Defendants' Actions As Puopolo Trial Continues | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

...felt Like a dead man. I answered all the idiotic questions in a daze, and thought, When I get back it's over for me. Stalin liked leading Americans by the nose that way. Well, why say lead by the nose? That's too strong¬ ly put. He only fooled those who wanted to be fooled. The Americans don't give a damn about us, and in order to live and sleep soundly, they'll believe anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Music Was His Final Refuge | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Even the work of the director. John Badham, has a slightly restive air, as if he would like to unleash some of the drive and sexual energy that marked his work in Saturday Night Fever. He is technical ly very competent: there is a smooth, pro fessional quality to every shot. But since the script and the entire design of the pro duction are aimed at stressing the roman tic at the expense of the passionate and obsessive elements in this tale, he gets to do only the odd clutching-hand scare shot and a few nicely staged chases. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stuffy Nonsense | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...henceforth to be known. Last week voting for the first time on the basis of a universal balloting, the country's black population elected 72 members of a new parliament; the other 28 seats had been filled by white balloting a week earlier. The elections were strong ly promoted by Muzorewa, outgoing Prime Minister Ian Smith, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and their other colleagues in the "interim regime." Their hope is that their version of majority-rule government will win international recognition and bring an end to the U.N. economic boycott imposed on Rhodesia after Smith made his Unilateral Declaration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Now, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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