The resolution also states that the United States should participate fully in any adequately monitored program of emergency food and medical relief for the people of Cambodia. A similar version of the resolution passed the House yesterday under the leadership of Representative WOLFF. Reports from Western relief officials and Cambodian refugees indicate that 2 million Cambodians are facing imminent starvation. A European physician reported to the New York Times thatThe sight of children suffering from severe malnutrition or dying of dysentery was reminiscent of conditions he witnessed during the 1968 civil war In Biafra. Unless help is rushed. he said. the death rate will be "worse than Biafra." A UNICEF official in Phnom Penh reports that 80 percent of the children suffer from the severest form of hunger.
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