Word: devoss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guarantee of movement onward." The worst of these refugee camps is NW 82, a tropical purgatory 16 miles north of Aranyaprathet, a town on the Thai-Cambodian border. United Nations officials are not allowed to have a permanent presence in the heavily guarded enclosure. TIME Bangkok Bureau Chief David DeVoss was the first foreign correspondent permitted by Thai authorities to look inside NW 82. His report...
TIME'S Bangkok correspondent David DeVoss found an equally thriving market in Dara Adam Khail, a mud-splattered tribal settlement in Pakistan's North-West Frontier. Visiting in the early days of January 1980, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, DeVoss asked the most venerable gunsmith in Dara for a "beginner's weapon." From beneath a pile of Sten guns, the man unearthed what DeVoss thought was a ballpoint pen. But the pen could accommodate a .25-cal. slug that would kill at close range...
...rice, and imported silkworms to stimulate silk production. Instead of staging massive military operations against guerrilla enclaves, the army intensified its psychological-war effort. "Before, when we captured a Communist, we just pushed him out of a helicopter," Major General Sudsai Hasdin told TIME Bangkok Bureau Chief David DeVoss. "But this use of force just gave the Communists a propaganda advantage...
...South's economic activity. Out of necessity, the regime has tacitly accepted the fondness that the entrepreneurial Saigonese have for profits-and even the still treasured U.S. dollar. Following a visit to what is now officially called Ho Chi Minh City, TIME Correspondent David DeVoss filed this report...
That dream of economic strength has never materialized. Viet Nam today is a somber country where austere militarism remains a way of life. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss and Photographer Dirck Halstead, who both covered the Viet Nam War, recently spent 17 days in Viet Nam to assess what has gone wrong-and what is going right. De Voss 's report...