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...Som schools say they'd lose 70 percent [of their federal subsidy for financial aid]. Others say they wouldn't lose any, Miller said...
Military observers in Thailand confirm that the Khmer Rouge are active inside Kampuchea: they have been interdicting communications lines to the point where international relief workers warn against ferrying food and equipment along the two main roads connecting Kampuchea's major port, Kompong Som, with Phnom Penh. The train linking Phnom Penh and the western city of Battambang rarely runs: the guerrillas have attacked it too often...
...wish to tell you that the relief supplies being sent in through Kompong Som and Phnom-Penh never reach the Cambodian people. The Vietnamese have not distributed relief supplies. At the same time, they continue to plunder and to destroy the means of food production that the people have managed to achieve. That's why we appeal to all international organizations to prevent the Vietnamese from taking this aid and to send their personnel to supervise its distribution...
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...
...attempts have been as successful as Iowa Shares. Some 50,000 tons of food and medical supplies have been shipped to Phnom-Penh and Kompong Som in Cambodia by relief agencies throughout the world. But Cambodia's government is holding up distribution because of fears the aid will end up in the hands of Khmer Rouge rebels. "Most of it is still in warehouses," says Lincoln Bloomfield, head of the National Security Council's Office of Global Affairs...