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...year 1297, a Chinese official named Chou Ta-kuan was sent by his emperor on a reporting mission to the kingdom of Khmer, in the land that is now Cambodia. The Cambodians, he quickly decided, "are not what we would call civilized people." The women were depraved and old before their time; the marketplaces were filled with homosexuals; and bathing in the nude was something of a national obsession-an obsession, Chou Ta-kuan was sure, that accounted for the high rate of dysentery and leprosy. Chou Ta-kuan could find almost nothing good to say about the Cambodians...
...ta fouhtuh d'mon Kaoua...
...There, Rebel Captain Kong Le shot down one of the government's AT6 trainers (whereupon the U.S. sent in two more, raising the royal air force to a total of five planes). Kong Le also had artillery, supplied him by Russian airlift. He advanced on the village of Ta Vieng on the Nam Nhiep River. The government troops prudently retreated, carrying out what the officer in charge called his "coiled-spring tactic." Kong Le took the village and moved on south toward Pak-sane, slowly bulldozing a road ahead of him as he went. If he made it across...
Jerome Kern wrote Ta-ta dumdum, Ta ta-ta dumdum...
...switch pleased the Communist critics of Khrushchev's peaceful-coexistence line. SOVIET ROCKET PROTECTS PEACE, blared the Chinese Communist publication Ta Kung Pao's enthusiastic headline last week. It also served to refute the charge that he had become "soft on democracy." Even domestically, it could serve a purpose. If Russia's Ivans were wondering why Khrushchev's vaunted prosperity was not paying off as handsomely in comfort and amenities as they had been led to believe, this was an excuse of sorts: the money was going to protect Mother Russia against wicked imperialists...