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...past year, was upset in a bid for reelection. A major reason for his loss was that once again he had run afoul of Americans. This time the issue was the U.S. military presence in Thailand. To improve relations with Thailand's two Communist neighbors-Laos and Cambodia-and reduce protests from Thai leftists, Kukrit last month ordered the U.S. to close its bases and trim personnel from the present 3,500 (down from 49,500 at the height of the Viet Nam War) to 270 military advisers. Alarmed by the Communist threat, many Thai voters as well...
Alarming Tales. Kukrit, however, was overwhelmed by public concern over law, order and security. Terrorism is on the rise, and there were 34 political murders during the two-month election campaign. More important, Communist insurgents are operating in border provinces, where refugees fleeing Cambodia (see following story) tell alarming tales of Communist brutalities...
...turned "for the better" and talked about "good prospects in the future." He then expressed his determination to solve disputes between the superpowers by "peaceful political means" rather than by "force, threats or saber rattling." But Brezhnev also boasted of recent Soviet gains and American setbacks: Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia and Angola. He further declared Moscow's right to support "the struggle of other peoples for freedom and progress...
...nature. Safire damned socialism as "anti-city, anti-civilization, anti-freedom." But using the rigors of Cambodian socialism to warn Americans away from considering alternatives to capitalism here is dishonest; we face vastly different--and potentially far better--conditions for changing our economic system. But the press' treatment of Cambodia is no isolated instance; coverage of Allende's Chile, and of Portugal today would reveal similarly distorted coverage. Why? A.J. Liebling once said, "Freedom of the press is for those who own one." And that...
...there any freedom in Cambodia? Ieng Sary was not joking last summer when he described Cambodia as a "giant workshop." After a devastating war in which a tenth of the population died and another tenth was wounded, the government seeks rapid reconstruction and industrialization. These policies do have support in the countryside; Times reporter Schanberg said "Although recent refugee reports from newly settled areas are almost uniformly dark, the villagers the Westerners met in long-organized districts tell of the advantages of the system. They said they were getting better education and eating better, and were immensely proud of their...