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...tougher limits on their exports to the U.S. Reagan Adviser Glenn Campbell, director of the Hoover Institution, dismayed some Japanese by suggesting last week in Tokyo that Japan take a more active military role to protect its oil shipments from the Persian Gulf. But two other U.S. Asian allies, Thailand and the Philippines, lean toward Reagan. In the Philippines, says a local political analyst, the government of Ferdinand Marcos feels "Reagan would support iany regime, regardless of whether or not it is repressive, so long ias it backs America...
...room and was slapped with 30 hours of "walking" in return. It would have taken months to work it off, he says, but under a little-know academy rule which states that a visiting head of state can grant amnesty for "walking" cadets, a stopover by the Queen of Thailand cut it short...
...leaders unveiled no new policies, but found much to agree about. They encouraged each other to supply more arms to Thailand, which in June repelled a border incursion by the Soviet-backed Vietnamese. Hua told Carter that he had seen TV pictures of American planes unloading howitzers in Thailand. It was, he said, a "wise and important" move...
...incursion was carried out by elements of Viet Nam's crack 75th Division. It had no discernible military target. There were small probes along a section of the eastern border of Thailand stretching from Surin province in the north to Trat province in the south...
...same time, Hanoi undoubtedly wanted to give Thailand a demonstration of its military muscle. Viet Nam has long accused Thailand of providing military support to the Khmer Rouge and Khmer Serei guerrillas. Most observers say that the charge is accurate. Khmer soldiers, with Thai acquiescence, habitually seek refuge in the border camps, replenish their food supplies and then return to Cambodia to fight. Thailand, like the U.N., the U.S., China and several other Asian states, has refused to recognize the Hanoi-sponsored Heng Samrin government, even though it succeeded the vicious, genocidal reign...