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BANGKOK: In 1965, only 17% of the people in northeastern Thailand were within a day's journey of a main road. Today the figure...
FROM the moment of departure, the tour of National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger was understated, underpublicized and played with such casual routine that the press, as well as other interested observers, were all but lulled to sleep. As Kissinger moved from Saigon to Thailand to India, the reporters who greeted him had little to write home about. So the 2½ days that Kissinger was missing and presumed ill in Pakistan raised scarcely an eyebrow...
Cryptic Mission. At the same time the President received a steady flow of information from emissaries abroad. David Bruce, chief U.S. negotiator in Paris, kept him up to date on the peace talks. Henry Kissinger reported back from meetings in South Viet Nam, Thailand, India and Pakistan, and was scheduled to go to Paris at week's end. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird spent the week in Japan, where he stressed the fact that his hosts must assume a greater share of the defense burden in the Pacific once the U.S. withdraws from Viet Nam. This week he goes...
...Turkish decision may well prove to be the most important step yet taken in controlling the import of heroin into the U.S. But its lasting effectiveness will depend on the ability of the U.S. to persuade the other major opium producers-notably Burma, Thailand, Laos and Afghanistan-to take similar action...
Coming out of Viet Nam means removing all American combat and support forces-land, sea and air-from South Viet Nam, and ending air operations, carrier-based or Thailand-based, over Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia. The U.S. should continue supplying military equipment to South Viet Nam, as it does to twelve other countries, and could maintain a small military advisory group there, perhaps a few thousand men. It is true that this leaves the North Vietnamese with no need to negotiate to get us out. Over the years, however, they have shown very little interest in negotiating no matter what...