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BANGKOK (DNSI)-The insurgency situation in southern Thailand seems to be increasing despite the Thai government's efforts to crush the guerrillas with a massive military effort. The rebel organization, named the National Liberation Front of the Pattani Republic, is composed of communists as well as Muslim separatists who want to be separated from Thailand...
According to Thai Deputy Interior Minister Thawil Sunthornsaratul, the nation is paying some $150,000,000 yearly in suppression efforts. The Royal Thai Army, Navy and police have been steadily increasing their activities in the southern provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani where the guerrillas control or contest much of the rural areas...
...other side of the globe, Time Inc. President James A. Linen was concerned with the founding of a new university at Pattani, in southern Thailand. Linen was visiting Thailand as guest of Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, and during his stay was honored by the King, who made him Dvitiyabhorn (Knight Commander) of the Most Noble Order of the Crown. Linen first met Thanat during TIME'S news tour of Asia last winter, when the Foreign Minister's vigor and his views of the U.S. role in Asia made a sharp impression on the U.S. business executives who were...