Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brasilia Teimosa is a barrio of Recife in the northeast of Brazil with a population of about...
...silenced by their comrades' bullets. Red terrorists also hit nearby Ubon, where U.S. fighter-bombers operating from that provincial capital mount almost daily strikes against North Viet Nam. In the past six months, Communist assassins have killed some 40 village headmen, teachers and "police informers" in the six Northeast provinces. With steadily growing intensity, armed bands of guerrillas shoot it out openly with Thai authorities. Bangkok officials report that several hundred Communist infiltrators, about a third of them Vietnamese, have slipped across the Mekong into the Northeast from Red bastions in Laos...
...clandestine "Voice of the Thai People" radio station is urging the villagers, in authentic Northeast dialects, to turn against the government...
Force with Force. Thailand is determined that it will not become another Viet Nam. The tempo of terrorist activities became so great in December that the army was called into the Northeast for the first time. A battalion of 1,500 Royal Thai soldiers, made mobile by helicopters, now sweeps the foothills in search of guerrillas. "We have to meet force with force," says Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn. Bangkok has also countered the Communist drive with an impressive program of aid and roadbuilding (TIME, Dec. 24), points out that Thailand has some things going for it that Viet...
Nearly all the peasants in Thailand's Northeast own land, while 80% of the South Vietnamese are landless. Thailand did not have to fight a long, bitter war against a colonial power, as Viet Nam did against the French. Thailand has an efficient civil service, police force and school system that penetrate even to the most remote Northeastern hamlet. And, far from least, King Bhumibol Adulyadej can trace his Chakri dynasty in an unbroken line back to 1782. The King's picture hangs in practically every house and humble hut in Thailand, where he is not only liked...