CAMBODIA: A Plea for International Support

Khmer Rouge Leader Khieu Samphan gives a rare interview

The Khmer Rouge Communists were driven out of Phnom-Penh in January 1979 by the superior firepower of invading Vietnamese armies. Since then, from camps in remote jungle areas, they have carried on a bitter struggle against their ancient ethnic enemies. Last week the Khmer Rouge—perhaps the world's most secretive and xenophobic Marxists —allowed a small group of Western journalists, including TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, to visit one of their bases inside Cambodia. Anxious to placate world opinion, which was appalled...