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CHIANGMAI--Though the United States' military muscle in Thailand is concentrated in the dry northeastern plateau, bits and pieces of the war effort have spread into the mountains and plains of the North. At present the United States has three major electronic stations in this region and appears to be building a fourth. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is present in force as well...
...afternoon before the nomination, some 300 protesters appeared in the lobby of the Doral. They were incensed by a McGovern statement the night before to a group of P.O.W. wives. He had said that he would "retain the military capability in the region?in Thailand and on the seas?to signal and fulfill" his resolve to win the release of the prisoners. It was a curious inconsistency in McGovern's war position, an apparent apostasy from his vows of complete withdrawal. The protesters angrily called him on it, and McGovern explained that he would close U.S. bases in Thailand...
Military sources said that almost all of the servicemen currently being withdrawn from Vietnam are merely shifted to Thailand, from where they will continue flying warplanes in Indochina...
...quiet American buildup in Vietnamese waters (from 18,000 men to 42,000), in Thailand (from 32,000 to 45,000) and along the supply lines toward Saigon (about 15,000 in Japan, the Philippines, Guam and Okinawa) reflects the changing U.S. role in Viet Nam. By September, only about 1,000 U.S. troops will be in ground-combat roles, and their task will be solely to protect American installations supplying South Vietnamese armed forces. The main thrust of the present American effort is in bombing, though Nixon was careful to note at his press conference last week that South...
...South Korea. Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia. Thailand, South Viet Nam, Australia and New Zealand...