Word: thailander
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...Whirring over the highlands near the borders of Laos and Thailand, American-supplied Huey helicopters disgorge Burmese troopers; despite a fusillade of small-arms fire, they capture and-destroy a ton of raw opium at a secret jungle laboratory...
...battles, arrests and deaths are stages on the main line of the "Orient Express"-the lethal route from Asia's opium-rich Golden Triangle (the intersection of Burma, Laos and Thailand) to Amsterdam, distribution center for Europe's booming dope market...
...year's end. Yet supplies are so plentiful that street prices in Paris have dropped from $120 to $60 a gram in the past six months-thus making it cheaper to lure new addicts. Profits are enormous. A kilo of No. 4 heroin bought for $1,650 in Thailand or Burma commands $32,000 on the streets of Europe...
...East. The recipients represent a who's who of revolutionary militant movements, starting with the P.L.O. and the Eritrean Liberation Front, dissident groups in the Gulf states, SWAPO and other smaller black African nationalist movements, and rebels in Pakistan's Baluchistan. The traffic reaches as far as Thailand and Burma. Its customers are not exclusively radical: some of the biggest and most lucrative orders have come from the embattled whites of Rhodesia...
...also restrained the gung-ho anti-Communist sweeps by the army and police, especially in the capital, and has released all but 200 of the 1,000-odd suspects they had corralled. After the initial postcoup excesses, the government is increasingly aware of the danger of providing Thailand's Communist insurgents with a fresh influx of embittered, educated cadres. The threat was underlined when four top members of Thailand's Socialist Party used clandestine Communist radios to blast the "fascist NARC and the puppet Tanin" and call for "violent struggle...