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...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...
...like a parade of zombies," TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark reported from Bangkok last week. "For those who witnessed the macabre march into Thailand, it was an unforgettable reminder that a nation is in its death throes. All of the refugees were clad in black, appropriately, for they are the walking dead. There was no imagining what horrors they had witnessed and survived, or perhaps even committed, since some of them are cadres of the ruthless and decimated Khmer Rouge army. After a few days of rest and replenishment in Thailand, they will probably have to return, lame...
Says Farouk Abdel Nabi, an Egyptian with the World Food Program, a United Nations agency operating in Bangkok: "I can tell you after what I have seen I am willing to kill myself to get food for these people." Says a diplomat in Thailand: "The Khmers are teetering on the brink of being extinguished as a race. They will perish unless something is done right now and very fast...
Until now, attempts to get food to the starving Khmers have been hampered by red tape and the anarchic conditions inside Cambodia. The World Food Program, UNICEF and the 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...
Second, the U.S. has more reason to regard a strict, perhaps unsavory internal regime in a country as viable if that country faces an external threat. South Korea and Thailand both live with the clear and present danger of hostile, militarily formidable Communist neighbors. Paradoxically, the menace from North Korea and Viet Nam has galvanizing, stabilizing effects on the governments of South Korean President Park and Thai Prime Minister Kriangsak Chamanand. The Philippines, by contrast, is an island nation. Many Filipinos feel isolated from foreign enemies and therefore freer to nurture grievances against their own government and against...