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Within a year he marries, not knowing that Kim has escaped to Bangkok -- and borne him a son. Then a veterans' group puts him in contact with his Vietnamese family. Chris comes to Thailand, meaning to meet his responsibilities, instead completing Kim's psychic destruction. Her last desperate act is to ensure her son's future at the cost of her own. The primacy of love over money, the tale implies, is evident only to those who can be sure of both...
...smoking among Americans. Last week Koop took on the tobacco industry once again, but this time he was fighting the sale of U.S. cigarettes in Asia. Testifying before a committee of the U.S. Trade Representative's office, Koop blasted the industry's contention that the U.S. Government should pressure Thailand, which bans all cigarette imports, to open its market to American manufacturers. Said Koop, who retires Oct. 1: "At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco...
Phnom Penh's Premier Hun Sen says he also hopes the pullout will persuade China and Thailand to stop aiding the three guerrilla groups...
Pailin is the center of a remote ruby mining district near Thailand, where the guerrilla groups are based...
...Thailand DEA agents and consular officials based in the northern city of Chiangmai said the U.S. should seriously consider shutting down an antidrug program. Reason: official corruption had gone so far that heroin was sometimes being transported in Thai police vehicles or even army helicopters, making the program a joke. The embassy, however, decided to live with the problem because it could see no alternative...