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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...
...unity among Cambodians of all political beliefs in order to drive out the invaders. In striking contrast to the fanatical rigidity of past Khmer Rouge pronouncements, Samphan even proposed a coalition government that might include Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Heng Samrin, who heads the Hanoi-backed government in Phnom-Penh. Then, Samphan said, an election supervised by the U.N. could help to determine the new leadership of Cambodia...
...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...