Word: oxfam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oxfam-International recently announced a unique agreement with the Vietnam-backed government of Cambodia to allow the distribution of food and supplies. That government had refused all foreign...
Anne D. Fish, assistant director of resource development for Oxfam-America, said yesterday her organization had agreed with the Cambodian government that only civilians would receive food. The government did not want the food to reach soldiers of the deposed Pol Pot regime, who still control parts of the country, she added...
...Cambodian government will distribute the food under Oxfam supervision, she said...
Fish added that Oxfam-America, which has raised $300,000 for Cambodia so far, does not usually accept government funds, but will consider distributing U.S. aid "this one time only because of the immediate crisis...
Fish said that universities supply approximately 15 per cent of Oxfam-America's income and added that Harvard's committee "has been one of our more active groups...