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             Party"(Chandler). "He kept company with Khieu Ponnary, who was the first
             Khmer woman to receive a bachelor's degree in Paris"(Ashley). Khieu and
             Sar began a relationship and Sar immediately fell in love and they were
             married in 1950 in France. Sar's close friends while while attending college
             in Paris included Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary, and Son Sen. Each one of the
             friends in the group adopted a pseudonym for a little code type game they
             had created. Sar chose "Khmaer Da'em," meaning "Original Cambodian,"
             while the others chose more modern and less traditional code names such as
             "Free Khmer" and "Khmer Worker." Khmer was slang for Cambodian to
             most as the most prominent race or group in Cambodia are the Khmer's. It is
             one of the many tribes that inhabit Cambodia. Later in Sar's life he adopted
             the pseudonym for which he made a horrific mark in history for himself: Pol
             Pot, which has absolutely no meaning what so ever. "Sar failed his courses
             in electricity in Paris and returned to Cambodia in after his scholarship was
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