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Geologists suspect that the undersea oilfields stretch in twin crescents from the coasts of Burma and Thailand along the Indonesian Archipelago to as far south as Australia. If drilling proves them right, the results can not only spur development of the whole region, but will also surely alter the balance of global oil politics. Southeast Asia, along with Alaska's North Slope and the Siberian field that the Soviets revealed last month, could give world oil users great new sources of supply...
...first sign that Sihanouk might have lost control came when air controllers at Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport began to turn away incoming airliners. A Burma Airways plane, whose passengers included a U.S. Coast Guard officer en route to Cambodia to negotiate the return of the hijacked Columbia Eagle (see THE NATION), was in its approach pattern when it was waved off. A few hours later, a government communiqué announced: "In view of the political crisis created in recent days by the chief of state, Prince Sihanouk, and in conformity with the constitution, the National Assembly...
...king. The unique fusion of Indo-Asian culture that resulted reached its greatest heights in Cambodia, the seat of the once-mighty Khmer Empire. Between the 9th and the 14th centuries, the Khmers conquered all of Southeast Asia, from the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam to Burma on the Bay of Bengal, backing up their rule by building an elaborate set of canals and reservoirs and making rice a stable crop. They also left behind one of the architectural wonders of the world: the colonnaded temple of Angkor...
...flow begins with the white-to-purple-flowered opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, an annual plant grown as a cash crop in Turkey, Mexico and the "golden triangle" of Southeast Asia: the northern portions of Burma, Thailand and Laos. The U.S. is putting heavy pressure on Turkey to end legal poppy growing, so far without much success. Raw opium is converted into so-called morphine base; much of the U.S. supply is refined into heroin at simple clandestine laboratories in southern France. It has come into the U.S. concealed in the toilets of international jets, in cans carrying Spanish fish labels...
Little Hope. About the only person who seemed even remotely optimistic was United Nations Secretary-General U Thant. Cutting short a home visit to Burma, Thant flew back to New York for consultations with ambassadors of the four powers (the U.S., Soviet Union, Britain and France) that are attempting to restore the Middle East ceasefire. Thant said he had returned to examine "positive elements" in the talks; the participants, after 28 fruitless meetings, wondered what he meant. They have agreed that Israel should withdraw from occupied territories. But they are far from agreement on security guarantees for Israel, and without...