What Do We Have For The Witnesses, Johnnie?

Plot

"The Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee gazes benignly across a field of green felt and microphones at the motley band of Cambodian refugees huddled around the witness table. He beings to commend them for their bravery, their tenacity, their willingness to subject themselves to a grueling week of testimony. Then unexpectedly he turns to an aide in the wings and charitably asks, 'What do we have for the witnesses, Johnnie?' Unhappily, Viet Cong Phred and his 300 fellow war victims come away with nothing more than the latest in Speidel watchbands, small compensation for an odyssey that began in a ravaged refugee camp outside Phnom Penh and ended in an orgy of patronization in the salons of Georgetown, with such trials along the way as a trans-Pacific flight while encased in Coca-Cola packing crates, and ignored requests for 3.5 million sleeping bags for Cambodia's homeless." -- Page 4 of cover