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...government has no control over its border areas nor much of the northern part of country where hill tribes live. The famous Golden Triangle, where much of the world's opium is produced, is the intersection of Thailand, Laos, and Burma, and the area is primarily controlled by various guerrilla groups and drug smugglers. The most common smuggling route, now that many Southeast Asian countries are cracking down, is through Burma to Bangladesh...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: A Harvard Traveler's Seven Burmese Days | 7/29/1986 | See Source »

...cease-fire talks between the government of President Corazon Aquino and Communist insurgents, guerrilla warfare has not ceased. In fact, in three separate actions last week, members of the Communist New People's Army / ambushed and killed government soldiers. In the first attack, which occurred near Gumaca, about 90 miles southeast of Manila, guerrillas killed 13 military people. Two days later, eleven soldiers died in an ambush some 230 miles north of Manila. The following day, seven more were killed in a shoot-out in the Aurora province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: The Bleeding Goes On | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

GENOA, Italy--Fugitive Palestinian guerrilla leader Mohammed Abbas and five followers were convicted yesterday of hijacking the Achille Lauro cruise ship and killing a wheelchair-bound American passenger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abbas Gets Life for Hijack, Murder | 7/11/1986 | See Source »

...than many observers had expected. They called on South Africa to release Black Leader Nelson Mandela, who has been in prison for 24 years, and to lift its ban on the African National Congress, the country's oldest black political organization, which today conducts a limited and largely ineffectual guerrilla campaign against the Pretoria regime from nearby Zambia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa the Debate Over Sanctions | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...discourage guerrilla raids by Khmer resistance fighters based in Thailand, the Viet Nam-backed Kampuchean government is continuing to work at sealing off the border with Thailand by building walls and ditches reinforced with barbed wire and mines. But even if the huge project is completed, it will be almost impossible for the Kampucheans to close the entire 300-mile frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kampuchea: Sealing Off a Border? | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

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