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...kinds of refugees created by Indochina's overlapping, unending wars: Cambodians, Laotians and the primarily Vietnamese "boat people." Her first stop was Sakaew, a center housing Cambodians 40 miles from the border. Rosalynn spent two hours at the camp, where more than 35,000 refugees were packed in makeshift lean-tos made of cloth, woven fiber and plastic sheeting spread out over 33 acres of clay like soil. During a briefing in a tent, she was told that nearly 1,000 of the refugees were seriously ill and that upwards of 400 people had died there since the camp...
Despite the best efforts of the Thais and international relief agencies, the aid being provided to the 80,000 Cambodian refugees who have reached Thailand is makeshift and inadequate. TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark last week visited a camp that had been hastily set up to care for 30,000 refugees at Sakaew, 40 miles west of the Cambodian frontier. Most of the refugees had taken shelter from blinding rainstorms in huts constructed of poles and plastic sheets; small blue tents had been set up for dozens of orphans. Field kitchens were preparing high-protein rice gruel...
...blanket. Nobody paid any attention to it. Another was that of a woman who was already in rigor mortis, her feet sticking stiffly out from the end of a yellow cloth her husband had thrown over her. The husband sat in a daze while people in the adjoining makeshift shelters not more than four feet away were going about their business of cooking, eating and sleeping as if the dead woman were not there. 'I've got a body here,' I heard one young volunteer shout to an official. 'What do I do with it?' The official shrugged. Throw...
...York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, it was dramatic deja vu. There stood Wicker in a prison courtyard full of makeshift tents and rebellious prisoners, just as he had eight years earlier when he acted as a negotiator during New York's infamous Attica prison riot. That time, the talks collapsed and 39 people died, most of them inmates but some of them the guards they had taken as hostages. This time, it was all playacting: ABC is filming a two-hour television drama, Attica, based on Wicker's book about the 1971 uprising. Barred from using Attica itself...
...Senators told Carter upon returning to Washington, that was a gross understatement. ''We saw people in a makeshift hospital, lying under plastic sheets held up by poles,'' said Sasser at a press conference. ''The living, the dying and the dead were all together. The only noise to be heard was the cough of children with tuberculosis. There were emaciated people in the final stages of malnutrition." Danforth added that the plight of refugees at the Thai-Cambodian border "defies the imagination. What struck me was to spend hour after hour and see only starving...