Word: thailand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colleagues quickly joined the attack. The victories of North Vietnam last week on the Plaine des Jarres had set off much nervous growling about U. S. engagement in a wider war. The Pentagon regards Laos, with its neutral but wobbly regime, as a possible base for Communist infiltration into Thailand. The Administration worries, also. By overrunning Laos, the Communists would dramatize the fragility of Vietnamization-much more effectively than by another Tet offensive. The casualties from Tet cost Hanoi dearly. It would take little military muscle, though, to smash the government of Prince Souvanna Phouma, and the Pentagon knows...
...refuses to discuss the U. S. role or specify the nature of current military operations on the Plaine des Jarres. Should the facts prove otherwise, he faces possible censure from the Senate. A Congressional amendment to a current appropriations bill forbids the dispatch of ground forces to Laos or Thailand. (This amendment contradicts the bilateral military agreements made with Thailand...
...Indonesia, building cars in the Philippines and assembling television sets in Taiwan. Half a million Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki motor bikes put-put along South Viet Nam's roads, and little Sony radios are to be seen everywhere. "The people feel that we are being invaded," says Thailand's Economic Affairs Minister Bunchana Atthakor, "this time economically...
...else, the Japanese have acquired a reputation for being clannish and arrogant. Even more than the Americans, who are famous for bringing the U.S. along with them, the Japanese move in with their own beer, newspapers, chefs, wines, delicacies and restaurants. "They form an empire of themselves," said Thailand's Bunchana. "They play golf together, eat together, go to their own Japanese schools...
Despite U.S. denials, it is common knowledge that the Central Intelligence Agency has for years supported Vang Pao's Meo guerrilla forces, and that Thailand-based American jets fly daily strikes against Communist positions in Laos. The net effect, however, has been simply to maintain the status quo; at week's end, in fact, both sides held positions similar to what they held a year ago. In Vientiane, more than 100 miles from the battlefield, news of the defeat had little impact. The capital was absorbed in celebrating an important Buddhist holiday-and high-ranking officials concentrated...