Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pine-fringed 82-acre lot just northeast of Washington sprawls the capital's third largest, most tightly guarded building. Though smaller only than the Pentagon and the State Department, the modernistic nine-story headquarters of the U.S.'s biggest intelligence organ, the National Security Agency, is also official Washington's least-known edifice...
Wrong Medicine. The regime of Premier Thanom Kittikachorn has not been idle. Over the past year, it has built up a force of 10,000 Royal Thai Army troops and police in the Northeast. More than two-thirds of the annual U.S. $60 million economic-aid package now goes to the impoverished area. U.S. Special Forces train Thai soldiers in counterinsurgency, and a few Americans work directly with troops in the field. While they leave problems at the village level to the Thais, U.S. advisers also help in road building, health and development projects...
...this has not been enough. Like a wound at first neglected, then treated with the wrong medicine, the Northeast continues to fester as the war flares on. It is no longer rare for a Communist band to take over a village for a propaganda session that is often climaxed by the execution of a local official. In 1967's first nine months, 216 government officials and supporters were assassinated, more than double the total for the same period in 1966 and equal to the level of Viet Nam in 1959. Because there are not enough men or resources, security...
...Communists have more going for them than arms. Traditional Northeastern distrust of Bangkok in general and of haughty local officials and police in particular make the government's task difficult. There is bitterness, too; though the rest of Thailand is relatively prosperous, years of neglect have kept the Northeast dirt poor. Bangkok too often obfuscates the Communist threat by claiming that Communist helicopters are landing in Thailand to supply the terrorists (there is no evidence of such) or that the insurgency is an invasion by thousands of Thai-born Chinese youths (the terrorists are mostly Thais). The Royal Thai...
Last week's raids left only five major targets of military value still unscathed. They were the Gia Lam airbase near Hanoi; the Phuc Yen airbase, 15 miles northeast of the capital; the railway terminal and power plant in Lao Cai, a North Vietnamese town that sits directly on the Chinese border; the piers at the auxiliary port of Hon Gai; and, of course, the docks at Haiphong. But unless the U.S.'s new choke-and-destroy air strategy is suddenly curtailed, all those objectives, except perhaps the Haiphong docks, are soon likely to feel the blast...