Word: cardamom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they live in deathly fear of the Khmer Rouge, who have not abandoned their politics of terror. Though it is not known for sure whether Pol Pot survived his ouster by the Vietnamese last January, he is widely believed to command his guerrilla forces from hideouts in the Cardamom Mountains of southwest Cambodia. Other known areas of Khmer Rouge strength are in the heavily forested northeast and the mountainous west...
Although the Vietnamese troops in Cambodia outnumber the Khmer Rouge 7 to 1, it is by no means certain that Hanoi can defeat the Khmer Rouge. The Cardamom Mountains are densely forested and remote. The Vietnamese supply lines are long and vulnerable to harassment, and the Khmer Rouge know the country. Continuing Vietnamese efforts to root out the guerrillas may merely add to the chaos in Cambodia...
...nose, or the shoulder. They handed their written petitions to an aide standing beside the Prince; these would be considered later and directed to the appropriate government agency for action. Then the visitors took their seats around the walls. A royal aide wearing a curved sword served bitter cardamom-flavored coffee, while another sword-bearing retainer followed to collect the tiny, round-bottomed cups...
Departing Africa for the Middle East, the tour landed in Saudi Arabia for a session with Crown Prince Fahd at his working palace in Riyadh. Sipping bitter cardamom tea, the de facto head of state stressed his country's role as a moderating influence in the Arab world and spoke of its long friendship with the U.S. But the Prince left little doubt that the friendship would be reappraised if Congress denied the Saudis the F-15 fighter-bombers that he claims to need for national defense...
...government of Lon Nol with roughly half the country to defend, including the fish-and rice-producing region around the Tonle Sap and the Angkor area. The regions given over to the Communists would include the northeast, where they already dominate, the eastern border regions and the rugged Cardamom Mountains in the southwest...