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...Southern California. The company has also enjoyed a lucrative and thriving relationship with the U.S. military for the past 30 years. In addition to building emergency landing strips during the Korean War, the company has constructed an extensive array of airstrips in such Far Eastern locations as Okinawa, Taiwan, Thailand and South Viet...
...failed to win any seats at all, the top ten picked up 243. But the seats were distributed in such a way that it will require a minimum of four parties to form even a slim majority. The middle-of-the-road Democrat Party, which headed the opposition to Thailand's military rule for three decades, led with 72 seats. Party Leader Seni Pramoj, while conceding that he "was heading straight for trouble," immediately announced that he would try to form a coalition with three or four other moderate and rightist parties. A likely coalition member is the right...
...backing of both conservative business interests and the National Student Center of Thailand, a potent political pressure group since the student-led rebellion that ousted Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn's military dictatorship in 1973. In foreign policy, he is expected to maintain close ties with the U.S. while developing better relations with China and the countries of the Third World...
...China's tightly controlled society. One useful technique in getting new agents is to exploit traditionally close family relationships by approaching prospects through their relatives. A major area for contacting potential spies is Yunnan province in China's far Southwest, near the "Golden Triangle" of Burma, Thailand and Laos, where remnants of a Kuomintang army have operated since the end of World...
Burma is expected to come under increasing pressure from Communist guerrillas exploiting the economic and political troubles of the Ne Win regime. The 10,000 insurgents, active in the opium-rich area bordering China, Laos and Thailand, are capable of launching a major campaign against Rangoon's forces...