Word: pak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Admiral John V. Smith, son of the late Marine General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, protested both the Pueblo incident and an attempted attack on South Korea's President Chung Hee Park by a North Korean suicide squad earlier in the week. His Communist counterpart, Major General Pak Chung Kuk-known to American officers as "Frog Face"-claimed that the U.S. ship had been caught spying in North Korean waters and that the suicide squad was actually made up of "patriotic" South Koreans. To that, Smith angrily retorted: "I want to tell you, Pak, that the evidence against...
Indonesia's students helped put Acting President Suharto into power, and since then have eagerly kept an eye on his government. Relations have been fairly smooth; the students have even taken to calling him "Pak Harto"-Father Harto. Last week, however, several thousand students marched on the President's office for the first time since Suharto took over, bristling with anger about the rising price of rice. Suharto, who has always been considered a shy and reticent man, went out to meet them, listened briefly to their complaints and then told them off much as he would have...
...field camps such as Pak Chong, the Thais are put through a grueling 35-day, 67-hour-week routine that teaches them everything from how to avoid guerrilla ambushes to the art of winning over suspicious villagers. The first attempts at civic action are tried in villages near the camps, working with the village headmen in sanitation, security and medical care. But the major thrust of the U.S. effort is relentlessly rugged combat training...
Typical of the thoroughness of the Special Forces is a model village they have constructed at Pak Chong for practicing search-and-seizure tactics. Its hazards are real and in earnest. When the unsuspecting Thai trainees come through the gate, snipers and mantraps of sharpened pungi stakes greet them. Targets suddenly pop up. As the Thais raise their rifles, the earth nearby explodes from hidden mines-a sequence that has caused many Thai soldiers initially to drop their rifles in fright. But there is more to the Green Beret village than shooting. The Thais learn the guerrilla's subtleties...
...nation's insurgency problem as part of the same Southeast Asian struggle gripping South Viet Nam. So, too, does North Viet Nam. The proof may be seen in Hoa Binh, some 50 miles outside Hanoi, where the North Vietnamese are training 150 Thais at a time. Like Pak Chong, Hoa Binh is a school for boondocks warfare. There, the North Vietnamese teach Communist Thais the arts of weaponry, propaganda and sabotage before sending them back to make trouble in Bangkok's backyard...