Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both the Thai and Burmese governments have led to cross-border incursions by troops from both countries, which are straining diplomatic relations. Last month the warlords began hitting back, machine-gunning and looting a tourist boat in Thailand's northern Chiangrai province. Says a U.S. diplomat in Bangkok: "Our mission in [neighboring] Chiangmai [province] is almost literally under the gun. The opium warlords have so many contacts in Chiangmai that anything is possible...
Osborne was born in Bangkok to British parents; his father, a somewhat eccentric professor, spent much of his time trying to convert Christians to Hinduism. Osborne earned a doctorate in chemical engineering and worked for Shell Oil Co. before quitting to become a computer consultant and industry gadfly. His self-published book, An Introduction to Microcomputers, sold so well (300,000 copies) that he set up his own trade publishing company, which McGraw-Hill later bought...
...Missionaries know an Asia seldom seen by journalists," said Bangkok Bureau Chief David DeVoss after this week's cover story on Christian workers overseas had taken him into isolated areas of Borneo and northern Thailand. He witnessed a baptism in a water-buffalo wallow and followed a troupe of Thai students who perform the Nativity for peasants. Eugene Morse and his brother Robert, both missionaries, led DeVoss to a mountain village for a Thanksgiving feast of pork-fried cabbage. And on one cold evening DeVoss accompanied a missionary into a thatch-roofed house and heard him address a dozen...
...angry at the U.S., which cut its quota for Indochinese refugees from 168,000 in 1980 to 100,000 in 1981. In the end the U.S. took in 73,000. What has happened is that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has new qualifications for refugees. Says a Bangkok-based U.S. official: "Someone who was a refugee in 1976 might not qualify as a refugee in 1982. A person must be able to show he has a good reason to fear prosecution. Conjecture is not enough...
Thailand has contributed to the problem through its policy of "human deterrence." In an effort to make the country unattractive as a sanctuary, the Bangkok government has decreed that no refugee arriving after August 1981 can leave for resettlement until every refugee who arrived previously has been moved out. The policy has proved a perverse punishment for many Laotians and Vietnamese who would meet American immigration requirements because they worked for the U.S. (luring the war years or have relatives...