Word: phnom-penh
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...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...
...demonstration failed to move the Phnom-Penh government or the country's Vietnamese occupiers, who denounced it as an act of "hostile interference" in the country's internal affairs. Nonetheless, the march helped renew the world's interest in the country, at a time when its situation-at least for now-seemed to be improving. After a tour of the Thailand-Cambodia border last week, TIME'S Hong Kong bureau chief, Marsh Clark, found that conditions have changed so much in the past 13 months that the Western public's perception of Cambodia...
FANCY: The Vietnamese and the Phnom-Penh government have systematically prevented international relief supplies from being distributed to the starving inside Cambodia...
FACT: Most visible evidence suggests this is not true. While relief stores have piled up at the port of Kompong Som and at Phnom-Penh, there is no proof that Hanoi or Phnom-Penh is deliberately obstructing delivery. Distribution delays appear to be due to the lack of Cambodian administrators, the shortage of transportation, and continued fighting between the Vietnamese and forces loyal to the deposed Pol Pot regime...
...attempts have been as successful as 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...