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...multilateral agencies lift some of the financial burden from the sweating shoulders of the American colossus. However, the distasteful political system they posit will repel most nations. Smithies' plan takes that into account. "The most suitable multinational arrangement would be a consortium (including) the U.S., Japan, Australia, Thailand, New Zealand, Korea and the Philippines," he writes. "But the club should not be exclusive. Canada, for instance, should be included...
Durbrow, who said he had spent "almost 40 years in the diplomatic business," added that he supported Thailand's bombing of Vietnam because it was done "for freedom," and "I'm all for freedom...
...Concessions. On the main issues between China and the U.S., Chou was unyielding. He insisted that U.S. troops be withdrawn not only from Viet Nam and Taiwan, but from Japan, Thailand and the Philippines as well. ("This doesn't seem to me to be a realistic basis that any President could accept," Reston observed.) China would not mediate in Viet Nam, continued Chou, nor would it accept anything less than expulsion of Taiwan from the U.N. before "we go in." He professed to be perplexed over seeming differences in the Nixon pledge to seek U.N. entry for Peking...
...secret adventures are mentioned in the Foreign Relations Committee's report. But they include: American bombing missions in northern and southern Laos from Thai air force bases in Thailand; probes by U.S. Special Forces teams from South Viet Nam along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos; secret forays into China from northern Laos by specially trained CIA teams (now reportedly halted); the formation, funding and training by the CIA of an irregular army of up to 15,000 Meo tribesmen; large-scale operations throughout Laos by Air America, the CIA's unofficial flag line in Asia...
...past, when Thailand's role in the war guaranteed a steady inflow of money, bureaucratic lethargy was tolerable. Even corruption did not prove too great a drain. No longer. Having opted for a modern economy, Thailand needs a new sense of purpose before anything like the good old days will return...