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...reached the border town of Ban Hin Taek, the fortified mountain stronghold of Khun Sa, the most powerful opium warlord in Asia. Their objective: capture the town and crush the 2,000 mercenaries of Khun Sa's Shan United Army, who ran the opium refineries and ruthlessly held sway over the entire region. The Thai soldiers promptly took up battle lines on one side of the town's main street. Ten yards away stood the surprised drug traffickers, many of them routed from bed and still in their underwear-but heavily armed with automatic weapons...
...Soviet leadership in those days was eager for a European security conference that would consecrate the post-World War II borders and, implicitly, acknowledge the Soviet Union's sway over its satellites in Eastern Europe. Kissinger made clear to the Kremlin that the U.S. might participate in that enterprise if the Soviets agreed to prevent further crises over Berlin and to limit strategic nuclear weapons. The result was a package deal containing the Berlin accords of 1972, the SALT I agreements of 1972, and the European Security Conference...
...forces have recently rallied and declared a final offensive. Students are taking terms off, housewives are going on the road, and backers are raising a good deal of money to try to sway three more states. This final drive should be allowed to proceed without the pall of a possible judicial rejection...
...Warsaw's "normalization" campaign, apparently, was to sway Western European opinion and prevent the NATO governments from joining with the U.S. in denouncing martial law and imposing economic sanctions. But as the NATO foreign ministers assembled in Brussels last week, the generals' strategy had clearly failed. It did not take U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig's dismissal of the Polish gestures as "phony moderation" to convince the Europeans; their intelligence reports contradicted the rosy announcements from Warsaw...
Steim said he knew it was an earthquake because the frequency of vibration was lower than one would expect from an explosion or a truck rumbling. Another giveaway was the complete silence that accompanied the sway, Steim said...