Food Shipments

WASHINGTON--The United Nations' World Food Program has apparently halted its food shipments to Cambodia because bottlenecks are preventing distribution of the goods to hungry Cambodians, the State Department said yesterday.

Department officials, who asked not to be identified, confirmed reports that the U.N. agency plans to discontinue shipments until Cambodian authorities arrange to distribute food already in warehouses in Phnom Penh and Kampong Som.

It seems that not enough Cambodians are capable of driving trucks to carry the food into the countryside, department spokesmen said, adding that Cambodian authorities should allow employees of international relief agencies operating in the country to travel freely to distribute food.