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This week's cover story, written by Associate Editor David B. Tinnin and researched by Sue Raffety and Sandye Wilson, shows clearly that the industry has made flying easier-so easy, in fact, that this summer many jets are flying at full capacity and airports are overcrowded. The airlines...
Among the first pitiful sights on the road, witnessed by several Westerners, were patients from Phnom Penh's grossly overcrowded hospitals, perhaps 20,000 people all told. Even the dying, the maimed and the pregnant were herded out stumbling onto the streets. Several pathetic cases were pushed along the...
Some of them escape across the 450-mile border between Kampuchea (Cambodia) and Thailand, which is dotted with spikes holding the sun-bleached skulls of would-be refugees who were shot down by Khmer Rouge frontier guards. With considerably greater ease, others manage to evade the purgatory of Pathet Lao...
Anti-Chinese feeling in Viet Nam has roots in China's ten-century-long domination (111 B.C.-939 A.D.) of the country. Nonetheless, there is much evidence that the mass exodus was occasioned by Hanoi's communization program rather than by specifically anti-Chinese discrimination. Already deprived of their shops...
Only one area of town seems almost untouched. The section where the white workers in the copper companies live resembles a pleasant Belgian suburb, with well-kept gardens and roads, European cafes and restaurants. African mine workers, of course, still live in overcrowded one-and two-room shacks. Although the...