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∂AIL Editor, Magazine:↓%2New York Times%1↓229 West 43d St.↓N.Y. 10036∞

	The most frightening thing to me about Sidney Schanberg's January
20 story of Cambodia is the bland way he tells of bribing the crew of a
Cambodian patrol boat to abandon its task of attacking Khmer Rouge machine
gun nests so he could get back to Phnom Penh and file his story on time.
Even after the Khmer Rouge have killed three million Cambodians, there is
no indication that it might have ever crossed Schanberg's mind that there
might have been something not quite right aboutt this ation.  I fear that
the impenetrable self-righteousness of the American media might take the
same attitude about getting the story even if three million American lives
were being jeopardized by journalistic enterprise.

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