Word: snoul
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...SMALL TOWN OF SNOUL IN eastern Cambodia, along an invasion route from Vietnam, people have been lining up patiently outside an old building newly painted in blue. Inside they are photographed and interviewed by a voter- registration team to make sure they were born in Cambodia or have at least one Cambodian parent. Personal data, photograph and signature are recorded on a card that will entitle the bearer to vote in elections the U.N. is hoping to hold next...
...town of Snoul is a microcosm of the U.N.'s gamble. It is a poor place: pigs and cows root around the market; many of the goods on sale have come across the border from Vietnam. The town was destroyed during the American invasion of 1970; nine years later, Vietnamese tanks and trucks roared along the rutted dirt road as they invaded Cambodia to liberate it from the Khmer Rouge and establish an occupation that would last 10 years...
Said Arnett: "I don't feel a reporter ought to be involved. But I remember going into Snoul [Cambodia] and seeing the bodies of five civilians in the road. They had been napalmed. There was a mother and her two kids sort of melted together. I've seen a lot of bodies, but this got me. I started to lose my cool." He paused, then added: "The war is going to go on and on-five or ten more years -no matter what anybody writes. I've been like a diver crawling around the floor...
...leaders released 486 of Sihanouk's political prisoners from the Phnom Penitentiary. Later in the week it became even more apparent that the new government would need all the support it could muster. Reports reached Phnom-Penh that Cambodian troops were battling large Communist forces in Snoul and in Svay Rieng province. In Svay Rieng, 200 to 300 Vietnamese Communists launched a brief night attack against the district headquarters town of Chi Phou, but were held off by Cambodian troops. At the same time, other Communist units attacked a small village near Chi Phou, and a third force burned...
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