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↑ A number of other versions of the story state that the object was a tin of condensed milk, rather than a cat.
↑ Ahern, T. Good Questions, Wrong Answers, declassified CSI study on arms shipments through Sihanoukville during Vietnam War
↑ Kann, P. R. In a Cambodian Week Of Crisis, an Elephant Makes Weight Felt, Wall Street Journal, Nov 18, 1971. When it was pointed out to Mrs Savuth that another elephant, captured from the Viet Cong, was being sent as a gift from Lon Nol to Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., she retorted that "giving away captured elephants brings good luck". Savuth's men commented that the small, fat Khaat was a "funny elephant".(Kann, ibid.)
