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...grenades, recoilless rifles and rocket launchers, the men clambered aboard trucks and rode all night through the newly harvested rice fields of central Thailand. Finally the trucks began to growl up the narrow roads that climb to the Golden Triangle, the opium-rich territory where the borders of Thailand, Burma and Laos converge...
...house-to-house battle for the town late last month lasted three days. Only with the support of OV-10C aircraft, which strafed the dense surrounding jungle, were the government forces able to defeat the opium mercenaries, who fled across the border into Burma. At least 51 mercenaries and 16 Thais were killed in the fighting. When the Thai soldiers picked their way through the rubble afterward, they were amazed to find that Ban Hin Taek in no way resembled a jungle village. It was a modern town with tennis courts, a soccer field and shops stocked with electric guitars...
Khun Sa, who at 50 is regarded as the undisputed "king of the Golden Triangle," proved as elusive as ever. Born in Burma to Chinese parents, he turned to soldiering at an early age and adroitly manipulated a princely marriage for his mother and connections with the Burmese government to set himself up in the drug trade. Since 1964, he has successfully challenged the opium operations of several now aging Nationalist Chinese generals, who with their armies sought sanctuary in the triangle in 1950 and developed the lucrative drug trade...
...band seems to appreciate the admiration they get from their number-one fan, Psycho. Burma's music isn't nearly as threatening as that of The Damned or Flipper or other stalwarts in the New Wave's big noise division. But she loves them all the same, like groupics have always loved bands, regardless of what's the latest on FM radio...
Psycho reports that she's starting a group of her own in Somerville. The outfit will be called Romper Room and if it ever gets off the ground, you can bet Psycho will cover a few of Burma's big hits...