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...know an Asia seldom seen by journalists," said Bangkok Bureau Chief David DeVoss after this week's cover story on Christian workers overseas had taken him into isolated areas of Borneo and northern Thailand. He witnessed a baptism in a water-buffalo wallow and followed a troupe of Thai students who perform the Nativity for peasants. Eugene Morse and his brother Robert, both missionaries, led DeVoss to a mountain village for a Thanksgiving feast of pork-fried cabbage. And on one cold evening DeVoss accompanied a missionary into a thatch-roofed house and heard him address a dozen squatting...
Though it is surrounded by hostile anti-Vietnamese Khmer guerrillas and is within range of Vietnamese artillery inside Cambodia, NW 82 is not guarded by the Thai army. That task falls to the local militia, a sparsely equipped organization composed of former peasants, who are ill-disposed toward their Vietnamese charges. Several refugee women claim to have been raped, and men say that beatings are common. What is certain is that refugees who "misbehave" wind up spending the night in a red bamboo "tiger cage" 3 yds. long, 2 yds. wide and 1 yd. high...
...Thailand's supreme command insists, somewhat disingenuously, that it is the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (I.C.R.C.). The Red Cross vehemently denies any responsibility, other than medical, for the camp. Nearly a dozen Western embassies in Bangkok have joined the I.C.R.C. in asking the Thai government to move NW 82 away from the dangerous, malaria-infested border. But all the legations began to backpedal when the Thais said they would comply if the countries represented by the embassies agreed to resettle all 1,900 refugees within 45 days...
...general of Thailand's National Security Council, blasted Western nations that have not honored their commitments to resettle Indochinese refugees. Said Prasong: "The lesson we learn is that being too merciful could lead us to bear an endless burden, and it cannot be forecast how much longer the Thai people would want to live with the problem...
During a five-day visit to Southeast Asia last month, U.S. Attorney General William French Smith discussed the problem with Thai officials. Smith said that Washington was not going to increase this year's quota of 64,000 refugees from Indochina, though he did promise that the U.S. would do its best to accept as many refugees as possible, up to the maximum quota...