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Apart from extorting an estimated $15,000 a year from local rubber-plantation owners and workers, Chin's gang appeared quiescent for almost a decade, but now is believed to be actively roaming Thailand's four southernmost provinces in league with the native Thai Reds, who operate farther north. In his own propaganda, Chin insists that "we are only resting in Thailand," but few Bangkok officials buy that. Says one: "Chin Peng worries us a little. But we will deal with...
...Allah laughed when he created the Sudan," goes one Arab proverb. "Allah wept when he created the Sudan," goes another. Versions differ almost as diametrically about just what is going on today in the three swampy, southernmost provinces of Africa's largest country. For the past six. months, the region has been the scene of bloody uprisings among its 4,000,000 Negro tribesmen against their Arab rulers from the North. The Sudan's Prime Minister, moderate Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub, announced in Khartoum last week that "the situation is much improved. The rebels will be crushed...
...truth lies somewhere in between. Some 15,000 Arab troops effectively dominate the Upper Nile and Bahr el Ghazal provinces, restraining rebel terrorism there to what amounts to pinpricks. Control of the southernmost province of Equatoria (lat. 5° N.), however, rides a seesaw. A Mau Mauist organization known as Any a Nya (Scorpion), armed with Communist machine guns smuggled in originally for Congolese Simbas and reinforced by fugitive Simbas, ambushes Arab patrols, murders suspected Arab sympathizers, and spreads havoc through most of the countryside. Last week the rebels announced that they had attacked a river steamer at Tawfigia...
...airstrips. Howitzers and trucks grind through the once-empty green highlands. Wave upon wave of combat-booted Americans-lean, laconic and looking for a fight-pour ashore from armadas of troopships. Day and night, screaming jets and prowling helicopters seek out the enemy from their swampy strongholds in southernmost Camau all the way north to the mountain gates of China. The Viet Cong's once-cocky hunters have become the cowering hunted as the cutting edge of U.S. fire power slashes into the thickets of Communist strength. If the U.S. has not yet guaranteed certain victory in South Viet...
...Delhi, an Indian spokesman hailed the battle of Kasur as one of the most decisive victories of the war. The column advancing on Kasur had been the southernmost of four columns whose aim seemed to be to encircle and capture Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city. The Indians now claim that all four drives were decoys. Each column advanced only a few miles into Pakistani territory and then dug in: infantry in the front line, tanks huddled beneath trees and behind houses in the second, and in the third, artillery massed beneath camouflage netting. The Indians reasoned that Pakistan...