Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them, the U.S. is not only building facilities at Sattahip on the Gulf of Siam, but has also laid in a storage area at Korat with enough supplies to outfit a combat brigade-just in case Red China makes good its threat to stir trouble in Thailand's northeast. Thai-based U.S. planes are already operating out of Udorn, Ubon, Takhli and Nakhon Phanom to blast Red infiltration routes through Laos, bomb North Viet Nam, and conduct rescue missions for downed U.S. pilots...
...million-a-year U.S.-Thai military development program was proceeding apace. Two U.S. Army engineer battalions worked side by side in rising red dust with Royal Thai Army engineers, carving a broad, all-weather military highway-the Bangkok Bypass road-from the Gulf of Siam to the northeast provinces (see map). At the ocean end of the road, the U.S. is building the $11.9 million Sattahip Naval Airbase, replete with jet strips, a deepwater pier, and 70 ammunition bunkers. At the other end stands Camp Friendship, near the town of Korat, where 500 Americans and 850 Thais stand watch over...
...airmen have long been training Thai pilots, just as U.S. Navy Seabees cutting roads through the wilderness of the northeast are teaching Thai workers to take over construction jobs. The Thais emulate their Seabee trainers not only in their specially designed belts and insignia but in their rough-and-ready work habits. And last week Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister, General Praphas Charussatira, announced the payoff of the air-training program: Thailand is sending transport pilots to South Viet Nam, which sorely needs them, and is also giving military and police training to 1,000 young Laotians annually...
...buildup has been predictably violent. Terrorists have murdered 24 "police agents" in recent weeks, and when Thai cops clashed with a terrorist band near Ubon early this month, they found expended cartridges of Communist Chinese and Bulgarian manufacture. Most of the Red terrorism has been concentrated in the wild northeast provinces of Thailand, which lie near Communist-controlled areas of Laos...
...presence in the northeast of some 40,000 North Vietnamese refugees, who fled there after the 1954 partition of Viet Nam, also complicates the problem of counterinsurgency, for many of the young Vietnamese are susceptible to Communist recruitment. Last week Peking announced that Thailand's two Communist organizations-the Patriotic Front and the Thai Independence Movement-had merged under the leadership of the Patriotic Front. Both outfits together number no more than 1,000 members, but it is from just such hardened cadres that full-scale Viet Cong-style guerrilla armies develop...