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...remarkable thing now about the American involvement in Vietnam is that it was not remarkable then. It reflected a mainstream consensus that if South Vietnam fell to communism, then other dominoes like Thailand, Malaysia, even Indonesia could be next. Dulles' successors believed that they were following the lessons of World War II when they committed American troops to fight in Vietnam. If Hitler had been challenged early, they were convinced, the carnage of World War II might have been avoided. Now, by challenging Chinese and Soviet aggression in Vietnam, they hoped to head off World...
...farm, which doubles as a clinic. So far, the Thai authorities are dead set against raising tigers for medical use. ``They hope we will permit commercial breeding,'' says a Royal Thai Forestry Department official. ``It will never be allowed.'' Still, proprietors of at least two other crocodile farms in Thailand have also purchased tigers with the intent to breed...
Meanwhile, the Sriracha Farm Zoo and Resort Co. keeps expanding. Somphong hopes to earn millions of dollars from legal trade in crocodile skins and crocodile meat, which he claims is the best to be found in Thailand. He wants his tiger population to swell to 200 within a couple of years, and has opened a petting area for tiger cubs, which at three months old cuddle like house cats. The nagging question, says Leonie Vejjajiva, a founder of the Wild Animal Rescue Foundation of Thailand, is whether a petting zoo--the feeding costs alone come...
...Bangkok, Thailand...
...patrols pinned it down for more than a week. One member accidentally shot himself. Another fell ill and had to be evacuated. Though Nhommarath was just 40 miles from the Thai border the team took more than a month to reach the suspect camp and finally returned safely to Thailand on May 13. A week later, say CIA documents, the agency reported to the Pentagon that the team had spent two days at the camp observing about 160 prisoners, but none were Caucasians...