Word: indochina
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...Indochina is not over. It has merely moved to a new battleground -Thailand. Prime Minister Tanin Kraivixien now calls the long-smoldering (at least eleven years) insurgency by Communist guerrillas the gravest threat to Thailand's internal security. Long ignored by Bangkok, the increasingly bold Communist attacks have become a focus of concern in the 3½ months since the military's National Administrative Reform Council swept aside Thailand's wobbly democracy (TIME, Oct. 18). In their armed struggle against Tanin's military-backed government, Communist guerrillas have killed more than 90 soldiers and police since...
After Churchill returned to 10 Downing Street in 1951, Eden was again named head of the Foreign Ministry. It was one of the most successful periods of his long career. His role as co-chairman of the 1954 Geneva Conference, which ended the French involvement in Indochina, is described by Historian A.J.P. Taylor as "a beautiful diplomatic operation." That year Eden also found a formula for rearming West Germany that was acceptable to Paris. Labor's present Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, lauds Eden for "an inspired piece of first aid, which held Europe militarily together...
Normalize relations with the nations of Indochina and accept admission of Vietnam to the United Nations...
...meeting Saturday, sponsored jointly by Friendshipment and the National Council for Universal Unconditional Amnesty, was organized locally by the Massachusetts Coalition for Amnesty and Friends of Indochina...
More ominously, the fragile detente that Thai democracy had evolved with its Communist neighbors in Indochina seems to have been derailed. Broadcasts from Hanoi and Vientiane have been sharply hostile to Tanin's government. Still, former Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj dismisses the possibility that Thai opposition groups-even aided by the Vietnamese-can wage real guerrilla war. Instead, he predicts, those who have gone underground or into exile "will be back on bended knees to ask forgiveness so they can go back to the baths, massage parlors and nightclubs. The jungle is not for them...