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...work to be done as well. And it is precisely the area of advising the busy foreign policy professional on the nature and content of foreign politics that the scholar can make his greatest substantive contribution. The professional diplomat is the man who knows where, in Paris or in Phnom Penh, in Bonn or in Bujumbura, to find the door to which diplomatic notes should be delivered. He has a pretty good idea of what will happen to the note after it is slipped through the mail slot in the door. But he cannot be expected to have a really...
...001st anniversary of the fabled stupa of Tat Phnom, a gilt-gabled temple wherein reposes one of the Lord Buddha's ribs. The quiet country town of Tat Phnom, set on the banks of the Mekong River, was alive with revelry. Shapely Thai strippers wriggled through their acts while giggling Buddhist monks and greasy-haired village sharpies looked on. A magician sawed a girl in half. Sarong-clad farmers swilled down rice whisky, then took their turns at the local brothel. But the most unusual attraction in Tat Phnom last week was a network of foxholes from which...
Authentic Dialect. Just 50 miles from Tat Phnom last week, a squad of Thai cops, returning from patrol with two Communist prisoners, was ambushed on an ox trail and forced to dive for cover while the prisoners were permanently 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...
...Viet Cong seemed to get their money's worth almost immediately. Seated on either side of a Viet Cong spokesman at a press conference in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, the two Americans sharply denounced U.S. involvement in the war, praised their captors, and pledged to quit the Army to lead peace demonstrations. "I have known both sides, and the war in Viet Nam is of no interest to the United States," declared Smith, a ten-year Army veteran. He was returning home, he said, "so Americans can see the light about the war." McClure, a six-year...
...obliged to draw your attention to the fact that the top U.S. military adviser to Cambodia, in Phnom Penh on Nov. 1, denied categorically that Cambodia is providing Communist bases for aggression against her Southeast Asian neighbors...