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...That makes me headachy." She came here after a few months in Thailand where she did the usual: raving at full-moon parties down in Ko Pha-Ngan, trekking in the hills around Chiang Mai. Along with three other travelers, she crossed from Thailand into Laos at Chiang Khong and then caught a boat down the Mekong. She had never tried opium before coming to Laos, and she had told herself back in Epsom, England, she would never, ever, try heroin. But she viewed opium, which is the base product from which other opiates like morphine and heroin are derived...
...railway track to the main village. A French hospital has been converted into the fine Auberge Done Khone ($14-$22 a room), great for a cold beer and a stunning sunset. If you must have air-conditioned accommodation, an hour upstream by canoe is the island of Don Khong. There a French colonial house with a spacious veranda overlooking a garden of mango trees has been transformed into the 24-room Auberge Sala Done Khong ($20-$30). Feast at the restaurant on succulent Mekong fish steamed in banana leaves. Both rest houses are owned by Auberges Sala...
...Khong says the U.S. should be aware of Japan, and Ulam says, "I think to some extent the Reagan administration kept pushing problems under the rug, and those problems--Japan, Western Europe--they all come...
...guess is that there will be a sizeable number of liberals who will feel that there is something to the [peace through strength] argument because historians, I think, tend to place a lot of emphasis--as do political scientists--on the outcomes," says Assistant Professor of Government Yuen Foong Khong...
...Khong says Reagan deserves some credit since the thaw occurred during his tenure, but, "the question is degree then...