IN ThE ULTIMATE SENSE, this book had its beginnings in
the small Cambodian village of Kompong Phloeung, where for
twenty-one days in August x97o I was a prisoner of a mixed force
of North Vietnamese and Cambodian guerrillas. Our little town
was as remote as any place could be. The last time a white man
chanced that way, I was told, was during the first Indochinese
war. But isolated as Kompong Phloeung was, its people had heard
of George McGovern. One day, during a conversation with an
English-speaking Vietnamese of~cer, Nguyen Cao Ky s name
came up, and I started to repeat McGovern s famous characteriza-
tion of the South Vietnamese Vice President. The soldier cur me
off. "Ah, yes," he said, "Senator McGovern called him a tin-horn
dictator. Tell me, what is this tin horn of which the Senator
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