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Interservice Rivalries. To assess the course of the sputtering war, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter traveled 1,400 miles through Thailand's most troubled provinces. So far, he reports, the 9,000 to 12,000 guerrillas of the Maoist-leaning Communist Party of Thailand have been confined to border regions. According to government estimates, the Communists control only 100 villages with a total population of 75,000. But nearly 10% of Thailand's 45 million people live in "contested" regions, many of them ruled by the government during the day and by the guerrillas at night. Twenty-eight...
...Prime Minister Tanin and an 18-man Cabinet of soldiers, civil servants and technocrats as a "clean hands" government. Among its first official acts was the appointment of a committee to probe graft. As Army Secretary Kriengsak Chamanan, NARC's éminence grise, told TIME Correspondent William McWhirter, "We have learned the lessons of South Viet Nam and Laos. In those countries, corrupted politicians were a main cause of their downfall." It remains to be seen, though, if the committee will be able to investigate the military's own swollen private enterprises (among other things, the navy...
...soldiers closed in at 3 a.m. and Buscayno surrendered without a fight. He walked out to be photographed with smiling army officers and even Marcos himself, who arrived to interrogate the prisoner personally. "He said the society is only for the rich," Marcos later reported to TIME Correspondent William McWhirter. "I admitted there were still inequities but that we were trying to remove them...
Awards are a pleasure all their own, and TIME staffers have won several of late. Hong Kong Correspondent William McWhirter, recently transferred from TIME'S London bureau, has received a coveted John Hancock award for business journalism for his reporting of last September's special story, "Upstairs/Downstairs at the Factory." It portrayed Britain's labor situation and the deep social conflict between workers and owners in the microcosm of one large firm. Associate Editor Peter Stoler has won a Special Achievement award from the Sigma Delta Chi Deadline Club for the cover story "Hypertension: Conquering the Quiet...
Despite an abortive coup last year, Mobutu remains unchallenged in his control over both the Popular Movement of the Revolution (MPR), Zaïre's only legal political party, and the country. In a rare interview, Mobutu spoke with TIME Correspondent William McWhirter at his spacious villa, which looks out over the rapids of the Zaïre River and across to the border of Brazzaville. "For all his dashing flamboyance in public," reported McWhirter, "Mobutu was surprisingly low-keyed and serious. He was nevertheless lively, outspoken and outwardly untroubled about the future of his country and the continent...