Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STARVING CAMBODIANS who are trying by the thousands to flee their country attest to the monumental tragedy that has decimated that Southeast Asian people since the terrorist regime of Pol Pot took power in 1975. Reports from the few Western journalists and relief workers who have entered Cambodia in recent months indicate that the suffering continues under the present Vietnam-dominated Heng Samrin government, which overthrew Pol Pot earlier this year...
Although Cambodia's refusal to accept even indirect American aid is disheartening, it should not deter the United States and other countries from further attempts to send relief. The Heng Samrin government has already admitted United Nations and Oxfam relief workers and supplies. World pressure and American appeals for Soviet intervention may lead to Cambodia's opening its borders to additional...
...Harvard Hunger Action Committee (HHAC) tonight will begin promoting a dinner fast on November 15 to raise money for the international relief effort for Cambodia...
HHAC is raising the money on behalf of Oxfam-America, the domestic branch of an international relief organization, and of Catholic Relief Services, an arm of the Catholic Church. The funds will pay for the purchase and distribution of food and supplies for Cambodians in their nation and in refugee camps in Thailand...
...scheduled a University-wide fast November 15 in conjunction with OXFAM, an international relief agency. They are also planning a jazz benefit next month...