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8,000 tonnes a month - but avoids the transport bottle-neck between Kompong Som and Phnom Penh. It will thus ease the flow of relief supplies to some extent, but does not provide

the means of delivering really significant quantities. A "land bridge" of the type proposed by 3 US Congressmen and rejected by Phnom Penh is the only obvious means of meeting the full requirements of the famine.

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