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...Thailand as a "client state" of the U.S.-clearly implying that Thailand's independence is a fiction and that it is suitable for inclusion in China's sphere of influence. Nearly 1 billion non-Chinese Asiatics, including the North Vietnamese, are not anxious to slip under the bamboo curtain lowered over them ever so casually by Messrs. Morgenthau and Lippmann...
Firm Asian supporters of U.S. Asian policy don't grow in every bamboo grove. So it was not surprising that Lyndon Johnson, just a month after postponing the state visits to the U.S. of Critics Ayub Khan of Pakistan and Lai Bahadur Shastri of India, spared no pains last week in welcoming South Korea's President Chung Hee Park, 48. After all, Park has demonstrated his loyalty by sending 2,000 army engineers and a medical team to help out in South Viet...
...Bamboo & Buffalo Blood. Off the highway stand U.S.-built jet strips from which American fighter-bombers have been flying to hit Laotian and North Vietnamese Communist targets. Udon and Ubon, Korat and Takli all rumble daily to the pulse of supersonic assault. At Korat enough equipment to supply an entire infantry brigade has been stored against the day when that many U.S. troops might arrive on the scene. At the same time, Thailand has set up "Special Operations Centers" from which elite Thai army units, modeled on the U.S. Special Forces, patrol the Mekong borders, gather intelligence, and help...
...obvious advantage is the design of the Vietnamese fishing boats that carry most of the murderous contraband. Over the centuries, Viet fishermen have learned to bottom their boats in bamboo. The intricately woven basket hulls of their fishing junks-some of them more than 100 feet long-keep out the water and yet can slide over the craggiest reef without rupturing; on sandbars, the bamboo weave spreads and flattens to prevent broaching...
...just another example of Sihanouk's ability to shift with the winds of international politics. Though Cambodia's chubby "god-king" is hardly the picture of a slender reed of bamboo, he is highly pliable nonetheless. So, apparently, is his nation's rickety economy, which seems perpetually bent out of shape. Teachers, civil servants and even the 30,000-man army frequently go without pay. Air conditioners in most of the capital's sticky offices are turned on only when important visitors arrive. Roadways are falling apart, but when Sihanouk recently ordered a load limit...