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...Soviet embassy was strafed with machine-gunfire, and the seven Russian diplomats there ordered to go to the French embassy compound to be evacuated with the other foreigners. From that precarious vantage point, they saw hundreds of thousands of Cambodians moved out of the capital, as Sydney H. Schanberg of the New York Times (see THE PRESS) put it, "in stunned silence-walking, bicycling, pushing cars that had run out of fuel, covering the roads like a human carpet...
...until November. What will the millions of refugees in the countryside eat between now and then? If the new government refuses foreign aid, as it has said it will do, who will provide the seed for next year's crop? "Was this just cold brutality," wrote Schanberg, who stayed behind when Phnom-Penh fell last month, "a cruel and sadistic imposition of the law of the jungle? ... Or is it possible that, seen through the eyes of the peasant soldiers and revolutionaries, the forced evacuation of the cities is a harsh necessity? Or was the policy both cruel...
...disciplined soldiers, heavily laden with arms, who swept through the city with loudspeakers. "Leave your homes immediately!" they ordered. When their instructions were not quickly obeyed, the soldiers sometimes punctuated them with random rifle shots. The frenzied evacuation of the city was soon under way. At the Information Ministry, Schanberg reported, a stern young officer held a formal press conference for Western journalists. Present were some Cambodian prisoners, many of whom had been ranking members of the old regime. Among them was former Premier Long Boret, who had elected to stay behind to help negotiate the surrender. The Khmer Rouge...
...prisoners ever since. To the annoyance of France, one of the first non-Communist countries to recognize the Khmer Rouge, the embassy had been turned into a virtual prison. Food, medicine and communications had been cut off. After protests from Paris, the regime finally allowed the 600 out. Sidney Schanberg, a correspondent of the New York Times, was one of several journalists in the group, most of whom seemed in good health. All the journalists have agreed not to write their stories until those remaining in the embassy, about 250 in all, have also reached safety...
...York Times Correspondent Sidney Schanberg, 41, who filed thousands of words on the last hours of the Long Boret government before Times editors lost contact with him late in the week. Schanberg, who won a Polk Award in 1972 for his compelling reports on the India-Pakistan war, dominated the paper's front page daily. "Sidney has been covering the story for the past five years," said Foreign Editor James Greenfield. "He felt that it was important for the coverage to be continued, and that he should...