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...Western nations alike are coping with the crush by packing refugees into overcrowded detention centers and camps. Upwards of 14,000 are warehoused in Hong Kong's three "closed centers," the detention areas for those boat people recognized as potentially legitimate refugees. In Thailand . about 300,000 Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese refugees are held behind barbed wire, subsisting on meager rations; some have lived this way for ten years. Detention centers at Britain's Heathrow and Gatwick airports shelter some arrivals for as long as a year. In Miami up to 700 refugees, mostly Haitians, have at times been crammed...
Washington State fisheries report finding tumors in the livers of English sole, which dwell on sediment. Posted signs warn, BOTTOMFISH, CRAB AND SHELLFISH MAY BE UNSAFE TO EAT DUE TO POLLUTION. Lest anyone fail to get the message, the caution is printed in seven languages: English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Chinese and Korean...
...Secord. In his three decades of military service, he was involved in clandestine operations wherever things were hottest around the world. After seeing action as a fighter pilot in Viet Nam, he was attached to a CIA force in Thailand to supervise flights for the agency's secret Laotian war. In 1975 he was stationed as a military attache in Iran and helped guide the Shah in spending billions of dollars on a 500-plane air force. In Tehran, he met his future partner Albert Hakim, who was then engineering the sale of sophisticated electronic equipment to the Shah...
According to Doolittle, the entire budget for the Laotian military effort came from America and was distributed through the CIA. "It was principally a CIA war fought through mercenaries and bombing. There were more bombs dropped in Southeast Asia than in all previous wars combined...
...aides referred to his negotiating style as "water torture": he would make the same point over and over, until the other side wearily relented. He was endlessly patient, but knew when to be brusque. When a North Vietnamese negotiator disrupted the Laotian talks with abusive rhetoric, Harriman "accidentally" pressed the talk button on his microphone and remarked to an aide so that all could hear, "Did that little bastard say we started World...