Cambodia and the Year of UNTAC.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Map of Cambodia -- Map of Phnom Penh -- 1. IT'S ALL FUN AND GAMES (March-May 1992) -- Welcome to Cambodia: Notes from March 1992 -- Settling In and Shipping Out -- Hello Kampong Chhnang -- Journey to Battambang and Banteay Meanchey -- Hotel Life and Foreign Women -- Mission Impossible to Siem Reap and Preah Vihear -- 2. STOP MAKING SENSE (June-July, 1992) -- The Real Census of Cambodia -- Why Communism Failed -- Driving Rules and Traffic Safety in Phnom Penh -- More on Missing Body Parts and Dining in the Capital -- Office Life, Adultery, and the Thai Lady -- Peace and Coconuts -- Then One day -- Unusually Long Fingers -- 3. HEATING UP (August 1992-January 1993) -- Big City Life -- Getting Things Started with a Bang and a Perfect Model -- Meeting Godzilla -- Life During Registration -- All This Time -- Salt, Rice, and Video Tape -- Becoming a Movie Star -- The Republic of UNTAC and NGO Life -- Falling -- Rising -- Going Places -- I Spy -- First God Created Cambodians -- Registration Madness -- The UN's Final Legacy -- Landing the Space Shuttle With Count Dracula -- New Heights -- Purer Than Breast Milk -- Major Thom -- Pictures of Cambodia and the Year of UNTAC -- 4. INTO THE FIRE (February-late May 1993) -- Once Upon a Time -- Plastic Surgery -- The War Continued With a Wife For the Night -- A More Perfect Model and a Silly Law -- The Meaning of Low Tech and the One Chance to Get It Right -- Oh, Look at That -- The Odd Bunch and Big Trouble in Siem Reap -- Imagine a Polling Station -- Flying by Night and Staking Out the Count -- Down and Out in the Jungle -- Act International -- Sore Knees -- Every Mother's Worst Nightmare -- More on Death, Sex, and Scandal -- We Were Okay -- Soon Sex Was Going to Be Impossible -- Romantic Good-bye -- Night Life.

May 16, 1993: More on the Election and Security -- 5. LET'S VOTE ON IT (End of May-July 1993) -- Thai National Security (Monday, May 17) -- Their Most Likely Target -- On Your Mark, Get Set … -- She Had Finally Died -- A Little Army -- Meetings with Remarkable People -- The Queen of Persia -- How About That? -- It Was Our Profit -- Keeping Score -- The Truth and Nothing But the Truth -- Where's the Party? -- The Playmate of the Month and Death or Suicide -- 6. MOST LIKELY FAT AND HAPPY -- Tribute to Gauguin -- Mystical Transvestite -- Beer, Salted Peanuts and "A Girl" -- Fat and Happy -- New Sheets on the Bed -- Afterword -- Appendix A: A few names and definitions -- Appendix B: The 1900-year countdown to UNTAC -- Sources -- About the Author.

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