Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times completely isolated on the ground, with all major highways and railroads closed down by Communist troops and blockades. The train route to Bangkok was severed when Communist troops halted two trains, one a heavily loaded freight, the other carrying passengers. They carried off 200 tons of rice, forcing the passengers to act as porters, then destroyed both locomotives with B40 rocket blasts. That line also runs through the provincial capital of Battambang, where most of Cambodia's rice reserves are stored in warehouses. Heavy fighting was reported at TonleBet and Kompong Thorn, two northern cities that have been...
Other individuals join in the game, selling newspapers, bootleg records, pots of brown rice, stolen cameras, and dope. Some of the newspapers are very good. The Old Mole, published weekly by a group of Cambridge radicals, is probably the best. You can also buy The Black Panther, the Militant, and Broadside Free Press. The brown rice is pretty good also. Buying cameras and dope is probably not a good idea...
...continued bombing of Cambodia after the U. S. troops pullout. The plans for Cambodia come from the same drawing board that produced those for Laos. In any case, the U. S. Army found very few NLF soldiers in Parrot's Beak. As they passed through the densely populated rice-producing area- if we can believe the American papers- they razed village after village, killing only peasants. Maybe Nixon thinks that the Red Khmers and the Cambodian resistance is not yet as strong as the Laotians and the Vietnamese, and that his policy of intimidation-by-genocide may work there...
Schimmel's appointment doubles the number of women holding full professorships at the University. She assumes a chair endowed by the late A. K. Ozai Durrani, best known as the inventor of Minute Rice...
This plan would leave the 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...