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Border Traffic. Police Chief Pao is a man with interests in 20 businesses. In Thailand there is no business like the dope business. The U.N. Narcotics Commission brands Thailand as one of the world's biggest opium trade centers. On several occasions, Pao's police made a great show of seizing contraband opium coming across the northern border from China and paid off large government rewards to the informers. But somehow, Pao's cops never arrested any smugglers, and somehow the seized opium had a way of turning up in Bangkok's legal opium dens...
Early this year, just when people were openly asking when Pao would be taking over the premiership, he ran into the worst sort of trouble that can befall a Thai statesman: star trouble. Thailand's best astrologers predicted in the newspapers that about the month of August, ruin would come upon one or two of Bangkok's mighty. Rumor said that Pao fired three astrologers in a row for providinig hin with unfavorable predictions. At the height of this horoscopic crisis. Preimier Pibulsonggram returned from a trip to the U.S., full of a lot of new ideas...
Diplomatic Trip. Pibulsonggram also abolished press censorship. This enabled Bangkok newspapers to report that Pao's police had just made an unprecedented haul of 20 tons of contraband opium, and that government rewards paid out for the tip amounted to $1,000,000. Again, no body was arrested. Questioned at the Premier's next press conference, Police Chief Pao could not satisfactorily explain what had happened to the confiscated opium or to the $1,000,000 reward...
Pibulsonggram moved swiftly, in the new democratic fashion. With a big smile, he summoned Pao and dispatched him in his capacity as deputy finance minister, to Washington to see about a new U.S. loan. The plane was hardly off the ground before the Premier began separating Pao and his relatives from their extra jobs and it had hardly landed in the U.S. before Pibulsonggram made himself interior minister and promised to stop opium smuggling...
...days tension ran high in Bangkok. At one point, all Pao's men and their families lived under 24-hour armed surveillance by the army, but it soon became evident that Pibulsonggram was only restraining, and not destroying, his friend Pao. Quiet returned to Bangkok. So last week, did Police Chief Pao. From the airport he rushed home for a long chat with his latest astrologer...