The Killing Fields Page #4

Come on!

Sydney, this way!

Sydney, look! Khmer Rouge!

In Washington, the

Cambodian ambassador...

...in a speech to

the Washington Press Club said:

"Let's face it, you took

advantage of us."

I can't eat.

"You are cleverer than we are, and

you induced us into this fighting."

Indeed, the Khmer Rouge

insurgents in Cambodia...

...have tightened their ring

around the capital, Phnom Penh...

...now swollen with some two million

refugees from the fighting.

Reports from government troops talk

of the field situation being so bad...

...that soldiers are having

to siphon gas from jeep to jeep...

...in order to be able to get

the wounded back to the capital.

No more electricity.

And now I get a message

to try for negotiations.

Well, it's just too goddamn late!

Alan, this country's split apart.

We put this ship to sea, and it breaks

my heart not to help it back to port.

Any port.

What pisses me off is, this country

has faults and strengths...

...and we have done nothing

but play to the faults.

I tell you, I will be damn

glad to get out of here.

This thing has dragged on too long for

it to end in all sweetness and light.

After what the Khmer Rouge

have been through...

...they won't be exactly

affectionate toward Westerners.

- Where do you want this?

- On the floor. Anywhere.

- Mr. Schanberg...

- Oh, Christ, my dependents! Six.

Dith Pran and family.

Right.

"Dear sir, my family and I are planning

a touring vacation of Southeast Asia...

...and anticipate two weeks

in Cambodia touring the country.

Would you please send tour

information and brochures?

Thanking you in advance,

Wendell Payne."

Wendell lives in Wisacky,

South Carolina.

What about the airlift?

We're taking it with us.

- People will starve to death.

- I know, but what can we do?

Look, there could be a bloodbath here.

Excuse the pun, but we're

either staying or we're living.

Hello, leaving a sinking ship then,

are we, Carver?

President Ford, in his foreign policy

speech, hardly referred to Cambodia...

...except to say that, as of now,

it may be too late.

I'm sorry. I'm late.

Where you been?

- They stop me because of the curfew.

- The curfew, huh?

Yes. I'm sorry.

Get started on this.

Tell them to start sending this out...

...but hold the last two paragraphs.

I'll have corrections in an hour.

They don't transmit today.

The transmitter at Kambol got hit.

They say 6 p.m. We can file.

6 p.m.

What do you think this is?

A monthly magazine?

This is a newspaper.

How about update tomorrow?

Yeah, sure. We can file

an update tomorrow.

I was over at the

American Embassy yesterday.

Good news?

No, not good news.

They say that when

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