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...Abdul Rahman refused to talk as long as fighting continued, Sukarno once again promised to withdraw his guerrillas and to have the operation supervised by neutral Thai observers. Finally last week a group of 32 ragged Indonesians marched out of northern Borneo through a Thai-supervised border checkpoint. Shouted the departing Indonesian warriors: "Long live Thailand, long live Malaya, long live Sukarno...
...CHECKPOINT by Charles W. Thayer. 303 pp. Harper...
...Checkpoint reeks of authenticity. Some of it is just that of a competent journalist rendering the sights and sounds of Berlin today-the nightmarish rumble of U.S. tanks massing at dawn along the border, the frustrated rage of West Berlin student rioters, the strange claustrophobia of the beleaguered city, which extends even to the press of boats cluttering the Wannsee of a Sunday afternoon. More rare is Diplomatic Insider Thayer's ability to convey with tape-recorder fidelity imaginary encounters between U.S. diplomats and the Russians in the kind of baleful restricted bargaining that still sometimes takes place...
Thriller writing, however, is a deceptively demanding craft. Checkpoint's dialogue sometimes creaks drably under a weight of exposition, and an attempt to rekindle ashes of the hero's old romance seems dusty indeed...
...arranging the trip to Paris, Field said he had applied for visas valid through Feb. 6. When the train reached the Poland-East Germany checkpoint, however, the officials told Field that the visas expired...