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...Mun is a peaceful little Thai town about a mile from the Cambodian border. Early one morning last week the villagers were awakened by the sound of gunfire. Then, over a loudspeaker came an unfamiliar voice: "We won't kill any Thais. All we will take is some food." Similar sounds awakened Cambodian refugees at two camps straddling the nearby border between Thailand and Cambodia. All too soon they recognized the fatigue-clad intruders who had stolen into their midst under cover of darkness as Vietnamese soldiers. As back-up mortar and artillery fire echoed in the distance...
...main thrust occurred at the two border camps just north of Aranyaprathet. The camps, at Non Mak Mun and Nong Chan, had long been a source of annoyance to the Vietnamese. Non Mak Mun was the headquarters of a Khmer Serei group known as the National Liberation Front of Cambodia. Nong Chan was the main dispersal point for the "land bridge" program, operated by international relief agencies, that distributed rice, seed and other supplies inside Cambodia. The camps were also the sites of huge jungle black markets, where smugglers bought sarongs, watches, cigarettes and other consumer goods for resale...
Monteverdi's Contemporaries (The Early Music Consort of London, David Mun-row, conductor; Angel). A fascinating col lection of sacred and profane music by nine little-known Italian composers of the 16th and early 17th centuries, performed on such authentic instruments as sackbut, recorder and shawm. As usual with the Consort, the playing (and in the mot ets, singing) is of the highest quality...
...Pronounced Noy-mun; not to be confused with John Henry Newman, the celebrated cardinal-theologian who was a contemporary in England...
...ditty: a popular night for pah-ties, though in Wash-tin, pah-ties are often thrown on Mun-dee, Toos-dee. We's-dee, Thush-dee, Frah-dee and Sun-dee as well...