Research Catalog

Title

Cambodia and the year of UNTAC : life and love in Cambodia's 1993 election / Tom Riddle.

Author

Riddle, Tom

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : Guernica, 2017.

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Details

Description

255 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"The author, a former UNTAC computer liaison officer, worked in Cambodia during that country's first election following the Killing Fields of Pol Pot. This book follows the ups and downs of that year (1993), both from a political and a personal point of view."--

Series Statement

Essential essays series ; 67

Uniform Title

• Cambodian interlude
• Essential essays series ; 67.

Alternative Title

Cambodian interlude

Subjects

• Cambodia
• Since 1975
• Politics and government
• Elections > Cambodia
• United Nations > Transitional Authority in Cambodia
• Cambodia > Politics and government > 1975-1979

Note

• Revision of: Cambodian interlude : inside the United Nations' 1993 election / Tom Riddle. -- Bangkok : White Orchid Press, 1997.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 It's All Fun and Games (March-May 1992) 9 -- Welcome to Cambodia: Notes from March 1992 9 -- Settling In and Shipping Out 17 -- Hello Kampong Chhnang 19 -- Journey to Battambang and Banteay Meanchey 25 -- Hotel Life and Foreign Women 30 -- Mission Impossible to Siem Reap and Preah Vihear 31 -- 2 Stop Making Sense (June-July, 1992) 43 -- The Real Census of Cambodia 43 -- Why Communism Failed 45 -- Driving Rules and Traffic Safety in Phnom Penh 47 -- More on Missing Body Parts and Dining in the Capital 49 -- Office Life, Adultery, and the Thai Lady 53 -- Peace and Coconuts 57 -- Then One day 58 -- Unusually Long Fingers 60 -- 3 Heating Up (August 1992-January 1993) 64 -- Big City Life 64 -- Getting Things Started with a Bang and a Perfect Model 69 -- Meeting Godzilla 73 -- Life During Registration 74 -- All This Time 76 -- Salt, Rice, and Video Tape 77 -- Becoming a Movie Star 80 -- The Republic of UNTAC and NGO Life 84 -- Falling 88 -- Rising 90 -- Going Places 93 -- I Spy 99 -- First God Created Cambodians 101 -- Registration Madness 103 -- The UN's Final Legacy 104 -- Landing the Space Shuttle With Count Dracula 105 -- New Heights 107 -- Purer Than Breast Milk 109 -- Major Thorn 111 -- Pictures of Cambodia and the Year of UNTAC 114 -- 4 Into the Fire (February-late May 1993) 129 -- Once Upon a Time 129 -- Plastic Surgery 130 -- The War Continued With a Wife For the Night 135 -- A More Perfect Model and a Silly Law 139 -- The Meaning of Low Tech and the One Chance to Get It Right 140 -- Oh, Look at That 145 -- The Odd Bunch and Big Trouble in Siem Reap 150 -- Imagine a Polling Station 151 -- Flying by Night and Staking Out the Count 153 -- Down and Out in the Jungle 155 -- Act International 157 -- Sore Knees 159 -- Every Mother's Worst Nightmare 162 -- More on Death, Sex, and Scandal 166 -- We Were Okay 167 -- Soon Sex Was Going to Be Impossible 168 -- Romantic Good-bye 172 -- Night Life 173 -- May 16, 1993: More on the Election and Security 176 -- 5 Let's Vote on It (End of May-July 1993) 182 -- Thai National Security (Monday, May 17) 182 -- Their Most Likely Target 183 -- On Your Mark, Get Set ... 185 -- She Had Finally Died 188 -- A Little Army 189 -- Meetings with Remarkable People 191 -- The Queen of Persia 197 -- How About That? 198 -- It Was Our Profit 200 -- Keeping Score 202 -- The Truth and Nothing But the Truth 207 -- Where's the Party? 210 -- The Playmate of the Month and Death or Suicide 213 -- 6 Most Likely Fat and Happy 217 -- Tribute to Gauguin 217 -- Mystical Transvestite 217 -- Beer, Salted Peanuts and "A Girl" 220 -- Fat and Happy 222 -- New Sheets on the Bed 224.

ISBN

• 9781771831833
• 1771831839

OCLC

958486014

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library