Word: thai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only after the large-scale U.S. military build-up there in 1965, not before. It is this massive U.S. military presence which may provide the guerrillas with a viable issue--removal of the omnipresent Yankees--on which they can unite the minority people of the northeast with the ethnic Thai majority in a revolutionary uprising...
...electricity, have been struck-some many times. The only large power plant left is Lao Cai, which is off limits because it stands on the border with Red China. U.S. jets recently destroyed the Haiphong plant that poured 95% of the country's cement. The showpiece Thai Nguyen steel plant has been bombed 13 times. To defend the heartland as best he can, Ho has emplaced in it some 5,000 of his total 7,000 antiaircraft guns and about 20 of his 25 SAM battalions, each of which operates six missile launchers. The result is layered flak...
...from Major Beauregard Brown III, 31, of De Quincy, La., who supervises combat logistics in Westmoreland's headquarters, to Navy Lieut. Commander Wendall Johnson, 33, a former gunnery officer aboard the Viet Nam-based destroyer U.S.S. Ingraham, who is now one of Saigon's key contacts for Thai, Nationalist Chinese and other Allied cooperation with U.S. forces. They include a brace of other, unrelated Johnsons: Major Clifton R. Johnson, 31, of Baltimore, a chemical-warfare expert with the 173rd Airborne, who laid the smokescreen that kicked off an assault on the Viet Cong regiments that Glide Brown...
Died. Direck Jayanama, 62, Thai patriot, Deputy Premier in 1946-47 and seven-time Cabinet minister, who during his service as Foreign Minister in World War II managed with great sangfroid to butter up Thailand's Japanese masters while at the same time holding a top post in the resistance movement against Japan, early in 1945 led a secret mission to Ceylon to confer with the Allied command about organizing a Free Thai uprising, and was later awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom; of stomach cancer; in Bangkok...
Ever since Thai Silk King James Thompson vanished without a trace while vacationing in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia (TIME, April 17), his friends have grown increasingly suspicious about the disappearance. The biggest search that the highlands have ever known failed to produce a trace of Thompson. No word of his presence has filtered down from the aborigine villages of the highlands. There has been no sign of Thompson's remains, which would certainly attract birds of prey. Hoping against hope, Thompson's friends have therefore concluded that he may still be alive, the abducted victim of some...