Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recruitment drive is one part of SAC's efforts to aid Cambodian refugees. The Kennedy School group also plans to sponsor a benefit concert next month and has asked Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, or Linda Ronstadt. All three artists have said they might perform, Susan M. Davis, SAC member, said yesterday...
...will help interested doctors and medical students contact international relief agencies such as Red Cross and arrange their transportation, Werner said. With SAC's assistance, Pinedo has located eight more doctors willing to work in Cambodian refugee camps...
Also witnesses to the tragedy were three American Senators-Democrats James Sasser of Tennessee and Max Baucus of Montana and Republican John Danforth of Missouri-who last week became the first U.S. officials to visit Phnom-Penh since the fall of the Lon Nol government in 1975. Cambodian officials reluctantly admitted to the Senators that ''people are going hungry...
...press conference. ''The living, the dying and the dead were all together. The only noise to be heard was the cough of children with tuberculosis. There were emaciated people in the final stages of malnutrition." Danforth added that the plight of refugees at the Thai-Cambodian border "defies the imagination. What struck me was to spend hour after hour and see only starving children: babies so wrinkled they looked like wizened old men. There is no reason on earth why this dreadful situation must continue...
...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...