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  James S. Robbins on John Kerry and Cambodia on National Review Online
I remember Christmas of 1968, sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia, I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese and the Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and the President of the United States telling the American people that I was not there, the troops were not in Cambodia.
I first was introduced to Cambodia when I spent Christmas Eve of 1968 in a river in Cambodia during the Vietnam conflict, and I found it to be a rather remarkable and very beautiful country which had an allure to me, and to many others, which has been sustained through those years.
Cambodia had severed diplomatic relations with the U.S. in May 1965 over some alleged border crossings during military operations, and President Johnson was very sensitive to the issue.
www.nationalreview.com /robbins/robbins200408180835.asp   (2119 words)

  
  Cambodia Tourism and Vacation: "Holiday in Cambodia"   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cambodia, sometimes known as Kampuchea, certainly has a chequered and tragic past extending, not just back to the late 20th Century, but hundreds of years to the time of the enigmatic Khmers and earlier.
During the mayhem of the '70s and '80s, the population of Cambodia was almost halved through war, genocide, disease and starvation, leaving barely four million inhabitants to rebuild the shattered land.
Cambodia, after its massive political and economic reboot twenty years ago, is bouncing back so rapidly in some areas that it risks an unhealthy backlash.
members.ozemail.com.au /~rodeime/cambodia   (1347 words)

  
  Holiday
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 Holiday in Cambodia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Holiday in Cambodia" is a single by the hardcore punk band Dead Kennedys released in May of 1980.
In October of 1998, Biafra was sued by former members of the Dead Kennedys for not allowing them to use the band's songs in advertising.
According to Biafra, the suit was a result of his refusal to allow "Holiday in Cambodia" to be used in a commercial for Levi's Dockers; Biafra opposes Levi's due to the fact that they use unfair business practices and sweatshop labor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holiday_In_Cambodia   (513 words)

  
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There are exceptions, of course, but many of the conversations in the guesthouses, frequented by backpackers passing through, businessmen on holiday, as well as scores of people who make their living teaching English or working for UN agencies here...many of the conversations do, in fact, revolve around sex, drugs, and guns.
Cambodia, it's recent history, combined with the absolute freedom to carry firearms around--the ex-pats again, get caught up in that intrigue and many head off to the firing range where they're free to frolic with anything from machine guns to granades.
Though Cambodia is predominantly Buddhist, much of its influence came from India, so there's a strong Hindu undercurrent in its early sculpture, and Cambodian music seems to have that ethereal Indian quality.
www.geocities.com /TheTropics/6330/Cambodia.html   (6307 words)

  
 Holiday in Cambodia - The "Christmas Eve" attack on Kerry is cheap and almost certainly wrong. By Fred Kaplan
Holiday in Cambodia - The "Christmas Eve" attack on Kerry is cheap and almost certainly wrong.
On Christmas Eve 1968, Kerry's Swift boat and at least two river-patrol boats were doing something unusual (Kerry wrote that he'd never been so far in-country) at least in the vicinity of the border—"near the Cambodian line," as he put it in his diary.
The Daniel Boone teams entered Cambodia all along its 500-mile frontier with South Vietnam from the lonely, craggy, impenetrable mountain forests in the north, down to the well-populated and thickly reeded waterways along the Mekong River.
www.slate.com /id/2105529   (1430 words)

  
 Cabinet Magazine Online - Holiday In Cambodia
In particular, in theory and in practice, they were characterized by a hostility toward individ-ualism, and by a pronounced willingness to subordinate the individual to the collective interest.
Its assumption was that Cambodia could be transformed into a rationally organized communist state by magic.
These last two are enthusiastically patronized by many expatriates, as are the astonish-ingly uninhibited purveyors of opium and heroin.The chaos and viciousness of contemporary Phnom Penh provides a sharp contrast to the days of "Democratic Kampuchea," when marriages were often arranged by the state, and when adultery and even flirting were capital offences.
www.cabinetmagazine.org /issues/2/cambodia.php   (1922 words)

  
 Holiday In Cambodia Tab (ver 4) by Dead Kennedys @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Holiday In Cambodia Tab (ver 4) by Dead Kennedys @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Holiday In Cambodia Tab by Dead Kennedys, www.Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys Holiday in Cambodia by the Dead Kennedys.
www.ultimate-guitar.com /tabs/d/dead_kennedys/holiday_in_cambodia_ver4_tab.htm   (191 words)

  
 Holiday In Cambodia by The Dead Kennedys Songfacts
Holiday In Cambodia by The Dead Kennedys Songfacts
This song is about an American kid who expects to go off to college and thinks he knows everything about the ghetto ("Braggin that you know how the niggers feel cold and the slums got so much soul") and then gets drafted and sent to Vietnam.
Pol Pot was the dictator of Cambodia during that time.
www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=4888   (633 words)

  
 Features: It’s a Holiday in Cambodia [varsity.co.nz]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
CAMBODIA: The Khmer Rouge, the Killing Fields, the copious landmines… These were the typical responses to my announcement that I was starting my OE in this misunderstood Southeast Asian nation rather than at a beer-soaked pub in London.
Nowadays in New Zealand, news of Cambodia seems to be limited to the occasional item about some dodgy old kiddy fiddler being charged with fifty-three counts of paedophilia.
A joint venture between the Australian Aid for Cambodia Fund (AACF) and the Royal Government of Cambodia, it was established on donated flood-prone land in the province of Prey Veng in 1992.
www.varsity.co.nz /features/articles.asp?id=4008   (1072 words)

  
 BBC - Holiday - Destinations - Cambodia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cambodia is still a poor country with a welfare system to match.
The majority of Cambodia's social problems can be traced back to the traumas of the Khmer Rouge rule in the 1970s.
Cambodia's troubled past does mean that tourism into the country is in its infancy but despite that, there were 600,000 visitors last year.
www.bbc.co.uk /holiday/destinations/cambodia   (1050 words)

  
 Triplogue - Holiday in Cambodia
"Cambodia is a poor country" was one of Bonat’s first utterances as we rattled slowly along the tree-lined road that led towards town.
But our first (and lasting) impressions of Cambodia were how magnificently simple and slow-moving everything seemed to be; it was the most gloriously undeveloped place we’d been in since Laos many months ago.
Since it was one of the biggest Cambodian holidays of the year (I forget its name, but it involves water and a Brahmin-Buddhist idea of purification) most of our fellow tourists were Cambodian.
www.bikebrats.com /thailaos/trcam.htm   (4532 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Holiday in Cambodia
Tomes distributed by the invading Vietnamese in 1979 (aimed ostensibly at the Cambodian population as a propaganda tool to justify their intervention in Cambodia's internal affairs) were at one time a written guide to atrocities like the Killing Fields.
To a person, they were terribly upset that their teachers could have kept them in the dark about such an evil chapter in their country's recent past.
The U.S. dollar is the unofficial currency of Cambodia, with filthy, old U.S. bills from the year 1988 being the most common, for some unexplained reason.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22444   (4386 words)

  
 Cambodia Hotel, Cambodia Tour, Cambodia Travel, Cambodia Tourism,Cambodia holiday, Cambodia vacation, Cambodge ...
Cambodia is well known in the region for its Prahok, a strong, fermented fish paste used in a variety of traditional dishes.
Cambodia is beginning to join the global computer age and a few Internet-service providers are currently operating in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap.
Tipping is not obligatory in Cambodia, but is nonetheless widely practiced in hotels and restaurants in addition to the service charges shown on bills.
www.hotelcambodiaonline.com /traveltips.htm   (1680 words)

  
 Marie's World Tour 2001 | Journal
The economy had seemed odd -- you could get a room for $5 a night, but the internet was fifty cents a minute, and restaurant bills often added up to ten dollars a meal.
I loved Cambodia, and it was slowly recovering from years of genocide and violence.
Cambodia doesn't have soup kitchens or welfare, and the limbless have to make a living somehow.
www.mariesworldtour.com /entries/0319.html   (1771 words)

  
 A Holiday in Cambodia
I found myself speeding through rural Cambodia at sunrise, passing by endless dried up ricefields, beautiful green hills, and local Khmers doing their daily net fishing from simple wooden canoes.
The Tonle sap river gradually widened into the Tonle Sap Lake and after 5 hours we reached its far end- a small floating village, still untainted by the slowly increasing hoards of fat Germans (they seem to be everywhere in SE Asia).
Now, in rural Southern Cambodia, the NRMA doesn’t pass by too frequently, so when Danny noticed the doors were locked, with his keys inside, to say he spontaneously combusted on the spot would be an understatement.
www.mekong.net /cambodia/aaron.htm   (3253 words)

  
 Untamed Travel: Holiday in Cambodia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Because a rumor started that Thai actress Suwanan “Kob” Kongying hated Cambodians, had accused Cambodia of stealing Angkor Wat and that she would never set foot in the country until Cambodia returned the temple to Thailand.
The Cambodia People’s Party (CPP) is the ruling party with Hun Sen as the prime minister.
Cambodia and Thailand have never been the best of neighbors and there are animosities going back centuries.
www.farangonline.com /disp_articles.asp?art=459&origin=   (400 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Holiday in Cambodia
Yet Cambodia is a nation caught in a time warp, unable to deal with a dark past which rivals the horrors of Ghengis Khan and Nazi Germany.
The evacuees of Cambodia's major cities and towns were renamed "New People," of "The Year Zero," and moved to the rural areas of the country.
This is vital when one considers that Cambodia's primary, high school and university textbooks have been sanitized via a Politically Correct deletion of any reference to the Killing Fields or S-21 Prison.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17087   (1358 words)

  
 Holiday in Cambodia
His name is Proseur, an employee of Beng Mealea and a typical Khmer, modest, soft-spoken and eager to practice his passable English on me. I will ride 'helmetless' on the back of his motorcycle for the next 5 days as we tour the temples of Angkor.
My family and friends told me I was crazy, that to go to Cambodia was tantamount to suicide; the best I would get would be artificial legs as a souvenir.
I was about to find out if their misgivings were unfounded or not as I headed into the "jungles" of Cambodia to see the fabled ruins of Angkor Wat, Ta Prohm, Banteay Srei, Ruolous, and the other temple/city complexes.
www.polosbastards.com /holidayincambodia190304.htm   (1772 words)

  
 Unexpected Holiday in Cambodia -- ThingsAsian Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
I was looking forward to a long holiday break from work and escape from the seasonal nonsense.
The catch was that I needed to hurry since there was only one business day left before the long New Year's holiday was to begin and the embassy was going to be closed for several days.
I liked Cambodia a lot but the thought of having to stick around and cool my heels for another two weeks was pretty depressing.
www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.1392.html   (2188 words)

  
 Cambodia holiday, cheap holiday Cambodia, package holiday to Cambodia, last minute holiday Cambodia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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After decades of war and suffering, Cambodia is finally rejoining the world.
Though it still suffers from street crime and violence, it also has deserted beaches, ancient temples and large undeveloped areas of forest which is slowly encouraging tourists to visit this unique country.
www.barrheadtravel.co.uk /holiday-destinations/Far-East/Cambodia   (286 words)

  
 Matthew Yglesias: Holiday In Cambodia II
Matthew Yglesias: Holiday In Cambodia II Matthew Yglesias
Holiday In Cambodia II As I always say, Fred Kaplan is always a must-read.
But attempts to confirm any particular mission is likely to run into the issue that confirming any covert action will encounter: there is going to be at least as much documentation of a false cover story as of the actual event.
yglesias.typepad.com /matthew/2004/08/holiday_in_camb_1.html   (2021 words)

  
 Cambodia Travel Guide - Events & Festivals, Holiday in Cambodia - HotelTravel.com
Royal Ploughing Ceremony (Bonn Chroat Preah Nongkoal): kicks off the rainy season in Cambodia in late May. During this time, farmers are preparing for the ploughing of the fields.
Water Festival (Bonn Om Touk): is one of Cambodia’s most exciting events, marking the start of the fishing season and the reversing of the flow of the Tonlé Sap river.
The show features new work by local artists and is a celebration of the new future of Cambodia, rising from civil war and genocide.
www.hoteltravel.com /cambodia/guides/festivals.htm   (580 words)

  
 Adventure Holiday in Cambodia - Responsible Travel
One of the most unspoilt countries in South East Asia, Cambodia is a fascinating mix of breathtaking scenery, simple cultures and traditions, stunning ancient temples, order, chaos, genuine friendliness and more...
Ravaged by recent wars, Cambodia has only recently become accessible to the foreign traveller, enabling each visit to be a true "adventure".
Explore the shells of what were once luxurious villas belonging to Cambodia's elite and take a walk along the small palm-fringed beach (plus a chance to swim in the warm water!).
www.godifferently.com /cambodia.asp   (899 words)

  
 Travel Cambodia - Holiday in Cambodia with Travel Indochina Australia - Cambodia Holidays
A visit to Cambodia is a challenging experience, reconciling the spectacle of Angkor, with the tragedy of the country’s recent past.
Inside Cambodia is an in-depth exploration of the post-colonial capital city, Phnom Penh, and the spectacular Temples of Angkor, including time spent at some of the lesser visited temples outside the main Angkor complex.
This is a journey for those seeking a deeper experience of rural Vietnam, a taste of her vibrant cities and of the enchanting country of Cambodia.
www.travelindochina.com.au /Country.asp?CountryID=4   (1240 words)

  
 Kerry's 'Christmas in Cambodia' - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - August 10, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tom Anderson, the commander of River Division 531, who was in charge of the patrol boats canvassing the waterways from Sa Dec to the Cambodian border, confirmed to the authors that no Swift boats were anywhere in the area, and that any would have been stopped, or their captains court-martialed for breaching the border.
Kerry slightly changed his Cambodia story: "To top it off, Kerry said, he had gone several miles inside Cambodia, which theoretically was off limits." If it was "theoretically off limits," who gave Mr.
Kerry's Cambodia story should be explained, either by an inquisitive press corps or by the Kerry campaign itself.
www.washtimes.com /op-ed/20040809-090612-9480r.htm   (833 words)

  
 thetyee.ca Holiday in Cambodia
Are there stages that countries go through in their attitude to visitors as the tourist trade develops, with initial curiosity and friendly indifference eventually giving way to a gold-rush mentality?
But unlike the towns crushed by December's tsunami, Cambodia's was not a blameless tragedy, and many of the perpetrators of the genocide still walk free.
Truman, I was at S.F.U. at that time and I seem to recall that the U.S. didn't simply ignore the Cambodia killing fields, they swore it wasn't happening.
thetyee.ca /Life/2005/03/11/HolidayCambodia   (1116 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Holiday in Cambodia
The country is broken up into various military provinces where warlord-style Royal Cambodia Armed Forces generals control what are, in effect, private armies.
These renegades are involved in illegal timber harvesting, gun running and a plethora of other endeavors ranging from drugs to toxic waste dumping to illegal immigration.
Today, Cambodia's capital is a haven to some of the worst criminal elements on earth -- the KGB, Russian Military Intelligence, the PLO, the North Korean Army and various transnational drug cartels.
www.wnd.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17087   (1358 words)

  
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