Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hanoi, in effect, is trying to fill one pocket by emptying another. The Pathet Lao troops are needed in northern Laos, where Chinese-supplied tribesmen are smuggling rifles to anti-Communist Meo guerrillas. According to Western and Thai intelligence, the insurgents last month killed 200 Pathet Lao troops assigned to guard a new highway...
...army coup, Kriangsak has found it hard to manage a largely agricultural economy that is plagued by bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption. He has also had to give a great deal of his attention to the threat posed by war at Thailand's doorstep, and the persistence of Communist insurgency, especially in the south...
Nevertheless, security is the Premier's main concern, as he explained last week in an interview with TIME'S Hong Kong bureau chief Marsh Clark and correspondent David DeVoss: "Close to our borders there is a full-scale war. We have Communist subversion within the country. Added to that there is the refugee problem that undermines our stability. We need arms to preserve peace. Tell the U.S. Congress to come to Thailand to see the situation. Giving us a foreign military sales credit of $24 million is not enough. Thailand faces a war situation. It deserves a higher...
Fear of Viet Nam's military might casts a doleful shadow over the future of every non-Communist country in Southeast Asia. Man for man, weapon for weapon, Hanoi's 600,000 troops constitute the most redoubtable middle-size army in the world, with the possible exception of Israel's. If the Vietnamese invaded Thailand, and if Bangkok called on its near neighbors for help, the combined five-nation ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) forces would be paper tigers in the face of Hanoi's overwhelming superiority in experience and firepower. Since Malaysia, Indonesia...
...MALAYSIA. The British-trained, racially mixed Malaysian forces are composed of a largely nonmechanized army of 52,500 that is engaged in a counterinsurgency war against Malaysian Communist guerrillas entrenched near the Thai border. The army has embarked on a massive modernization program, which is expected to be completed by 1983, but the Malaysians have had no experience in big-unit warfare and would probably be overwhelmed if confronted with massed armor and artillery...