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...daybreak the convoy reached the border town of Ban Hin Taek, the fortified mountain stronghold of Khun Sa, the most powerful opium warlord in Asia. Their objective: capture the town and crush the 2,000 mercenaries of Khun Sa's Shan United Army, who ran the opium refineries and ruthlessly held sway over the entire region. The Thai soldiers promptly took up battle lines on one side of the town's main street. Ten yards away stood the surprised drug traffickers, many of them routed from bed and still in their underwear-but heavily armed with automatic weapons...
Responding to loud chants of "Sing!" filling the crowded theater. Fitzgerald sang a verse of "I've Got a Crush on You," pointing to the audience and adding...
MORE DISTURBING to many is the fear France has "Finlandized" itself by creating a dependence on the Soviet Union for energy. Doomsday scenarios pervaded French publications of the last two weeks. One, in L'Express, entitled "Suddenly in the Summer of 1986," saw the Soviets entering East Germany to crush a popular anti-communist uprising. In retaliation the alliance--miraculously united--boycotts all trade with the U.S.S.R. The latter then curtails the flow of natural gas to Western Europe, whose economies suffer crippling bolws. One can easily fill in the rest of the apocalypse...
...final joint declaration condemned Poland for violating the human rights provisions of the Helsinki accords and deplored "the sustained campaign by the Soviet Union" to crush Polish reform. The allies also agreed to suspend commercial credits to Poland, except for food purchases, and to halt negotiations on the rescheduling of Warsaw's $28.5 billion debt to the West. Beaming with satisfaction, Haig pronounced the Brussels declaration "a solid success...
Glemp's sermon was one more dramatic indication that Jaruzelski was failing in his bid to impose national unity by force after four weeks of martial law. If his troops had managed to crush the last of the major strikes and restore outward order, the regime had won neither loyalty nor respect from the Polish people. A stubborn spirit of resistance still lived in the land (see box, following page...