Word: relief
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...subsidies than those now planned by the government. The price of home heating oil has doubled in a single year due to the lifting of price controls and the OPEC price hikes--the government's response has been shockingly inadequate. President Carter and Congress are leaving this year's relief effort to the Community Services Administration (CSA). But the $1.2 billion Congress is appropriating for the CSA's Emergency Crisis Assistance program will only provide each family below the poverty line with $400 of aid for the winter, enough to pay one month's heating bill. This unreal level...
Famine has plagued Cambodia since Vietnamese forces invaded last December and overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime. The refusal of the current Heng Samrin regime to send food to supporters of ex-Premier Pol Pot has complicated international relief efforts...
...school system, was responsible for explosions of racial hate that burned throughout the city this week. But though his analysis of the cause of tensions is correct, his solution--a $100,000 addition to the school budget for more security personnel--offers no more than a thimbleful of relief to the thousands of Bostonians affected by their neighbors' renewed hostilities...
International relief agencies, along with the European Community, Japan, Australia, Britain and the U.S. are mounting a substantial rescue operation expected to cost $110 million over the next six months. State Department officials in Washington said last week that the U.S. will give $7 million in emergency food and money as an initial contribution. Two bills are pending in the House of Representatives, one authorizing $20 million in Cambodian relief for fiscal 1980, the other providing for $30 million. Says Republican Representative John B. Anderson of Illinois, co-sponsor of the latter measure: "If we fail to mobilize the resources...
...International Red Cross have been supplying emergency rations to the refugees who have fled into Thailand as well as to the 80,000 Thais who have been displaced from their border villages by the fighting. Initially, Hanoi and the regime of Heng Samrin in Phnom-Penh objected to the relief operation because many of the refugees being helped were considered members or supporters of the Khmer Rouge. But it now appears that relief agencies will be allowed to set up offices in Phnom-Penh to monitor the distribution of food, thus helping ensure that it will reach starving civilians...