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...Burma, Laos and Thailand meet, fighting rages for control of the area's 700-ton illicit opium crop-a full two-thirds of the world's output. A major participant in that war fell last week when Thai agents, advised by U.S. narcotics agents, captured Lo Hsing-han, long suspected of being Southeast Asia's largest and most powerful heroin tycoon. In a rare display of cooperation, Burmese armed forces, which at one time winked at Lo's operations, attacked Lo and men from his private army, forcing them across the border into Thailand and into...
...decade, Burmese Strongman Ne Win had permitted one of Burma's militias, the Ka Kwe Ye (K.K.Y.), to engage in the opium trade as a reward for its support of his campaign against Communist guerrillas. With this franchise, the K.K.Y. and its most important leader, Lo Hsing-han, openly carried opium along Burmese roads. Early this year Ne Win abruptly switched policy. Worried about growing drug addiction among Burmese youth and realizing that he would have no chance of receiving aid from the U.S. unless he cooperated, he ordered Lo to get out of the opium trade...
...been fired from their official posts for trying to emigrate to Israel, and then barred from emigrating at all. Partly to keep up their spirits, the president of Tel Aviv University got Azbel and another physicist, Alexander Voronel, appointed to his own faculty; he persuaded neighboring Bar-Han University to hire a third, Moshe Gitter-man. "I hope that the administration will excuse my being unable to start my duties immediately, as I am, so to say, on leave," Voronel wistfully wrote to Tel Aviv. "I would be happy if some means were found for me to be useful...
Michael T. Williams '74, chairman of the CUE subcommittee on course evaluation, said Tuesday that the survey will provide more accurate information han The Crimson's Confidential Guide to Courses...
...looks like Berlin in May 1945. It does, however, contain about 4,000 South Vietnamese troops, who are holding what General Lam Quang Thi, deputy commander of Military Region I, calls "the northern front." Although secure for the moment, it is a narrow front indeed. Across the Thach Han River, barely 100 meters away, are sandbagged North Vietnamese positions...