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Department officials, who asked not to be identified, confirmed reports that the U.N. agency plans to discontinue shipments until Cambodian authorities arrange to distribute food already in warehouses in Phnom Penh and Kampong Som...
...worldwide clamor, the Heng Samrin government has condemned the international aid offers as a "maneuver by the imperialists and international reactionaries" to assist the Khmer Rouge insurgents. Justifying its refusal to allow relief supplies to be brought in by truck, the government claimed that the port of Kompong Som and the airport of Phnom-Penh were "perfectly adequate" for the purpose. But according to on-the-scene investigations by the three U.S. Senators, only 12,000 tons of food and medicine can be brought in by air and ship each month, whereas 30,000 tons can be delivered by trucks...
...officials have been more cooperative in their dealings with the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (OXFAM), an England-based organization that is coordinating a relief effort by more than 20 private agencies. An OXFAM barge laden with 1,500 tons of food arrived in the Cambodian port of Kompong Som last month, and two more are on the way. OXFAM has been permitted to station eight full-time staff members inside Cambodia. Robert Hohler, at OXFAM'S Boston-based U.S. branch, attributes the organization's success to its apolitical status...
...Cambodian government has rigidly restricted the importation of emergency food and medicine. It permits a daily airlift of such supplies into Phnom-Penh and allows an occasional shipborne cargo to reach the port of Kompong Som. But it has refused to permit trucks to arrive from Bangkok lest the vehicles be hijacked by Khmer Rouge troops concentrated along the Thai border. Experts from the International Red Cross and UNICEF Starving child are convinced that Cambodia must use such overland convoys if it is to receive the massive quantities of grain that it needs. The primary reason the three Senators visited...
...support all this aerial activity, Moscow is completing two electronic eavesdropping complexes in Laos, and has started construction of a radar tracking center near Sisophon, in northwestern Cambodia. Soviet merchantmen ply between Vietnamese coast ports and the Cambodian port of Kompong Som on resupply missions. Submarines of the Soviet Pacific fleet glide in and out of the huge American-built complex at Cam Ranh Bay, even though it is not a full-fledged Soviet naval base...