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After dinner, the old spooks are still wondering what went wrong with the intelligence establishment. "Well," says Maryland Housewife Mary Furman, who interrogated prisoners during the war with the help of exiles from Poland and other Nazi-occupied countries, "we were civilians." She stops, hearing herself sounding holier than thou...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: A Pride of Former Spooks | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deathwatch: Cambodia | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

But as the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Help for the Auschwitz of Asia | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

They came by the thousands, eyes downcast, silently edging through the high grass near the Thai border town of Aranyaprathet. Men without legs, hobbling on crutches. Women in rags, staggering beneath the weight of wooden poles hung with pots and pans, clothing and bedrolls, hatchets and rubber sandals. Children, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: And Now the Horror of Famine | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Some Catholics seize upon the anti-Catholic sentiments strewn around arguments over abortion or contraception and in defensive anger begin to think that the entire non-Catholic society is turning against them. That is simply not true. Both Catholics and non-Catholics can, and do, disagree with the church on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Rise and Fall of Anti-Catholicism | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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