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Ambush in the Gorge. The activity stepped up two years ago, when, during the Malaysia-Indonesia confrontation, agents from Indonesia's now-decimated P.K.I. (Communist Party) were dropped into the area to foment a separatist movement among Moslems in southern Thailand and adjacent Malaysia. Though the confrontation has ended, the agitation in Thailand continues. Last year a native Thai Communist movement surfaced in five southern provinces, is today numbered at 300 armed guerrillas and 1,000 sympathizers. Though Thailand and Malaysia have arranged joint operations against Red guerrillas, things have simmered along pretty quietly until this year...
...their demands for national elections by September, now found themselves with a greater stake than just about anyone in keeping Ky around so that he can keep his promises. They also discovered that the unrest that they had unleashed was far harder to calm than it had been to foment...
...neutralization is indeed to prove the ultimate formula for Southeast Asia, the Johnson Administration was not notably eager to embrace it yet. Nor was Peking, which has yet to give any shred of evidence that it is willing to relinquish its ambitions to foment "wars of liberation" throughout Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America. Even apart from its evangelistic mission to win the world for Communism, neutralism seems unlikely to appeal to the aging hierarchy in Peking, which seems more than ever convinced that it needs more rather than less militancy to sustain its own revolutionary mystique at home...
...headed off a war between Costa Rica and Nicaragua after Nicaragua tried to foment a revolution in its southern neighbor. That same year the OAS prevented a shooting match between Ecuador and Peru over a disputed strip of jungle. Not surprisingly, the Dominican Republic has been a frequent customer; in 1960, when Dictator Rafael Trujillo's goons tried to murder Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, the OAS imposed diplomatic and economic sanctions. Last week's five-man peace team was the 13th OAS delegation to visit the country since...
...stability in the nation, Senanayake warned that the nation's Marxists were doing their best to foment racial and political strife. It seemed no idle charge. In the capital, Madame Bandaranaike, who had close ties with the Communists, was making no secret of her own intentions. She was the world's first woman Prime Minister, and she now declared: "I will set another record by playing the role of the first woman leader of the opposition." Recalling that Senanayake had once quit as Prime Minister after only a month-long rule, she added, "I shall fight and fight...