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...help them, or Asian governments denied them haven. For 384,000 surviving boat people, there seemed to be no better prospect than interminable months in fetid "holding centers" in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong Kong. Even today, the bobbing skiffs that still flee Viet Nam are prey to ruthless Thai pirates who rape the women and plunder the refugees' belongings - in one documented case, even the gold fillings from their teeth...
...several years. Coos Abby now: "We're so close." Admits a candid Landers: "If anyone had written to me with the problem, I would have said 'Forgive and forget.' " Despite the rift, both columnists flourished, piling up readers on five continents, giving opinions on everything from Thai singles bars to the efficacy of witch doctors. "It could be that the medicine man really did help you," Landers advised one South African correspondent...
Eberstadt, a visiting fellow at the Center for Population Studies, recently returned from a month-and-a-half visit to Thailand and Cambodia. He and his interpreter, Kim Gooi, a Malaysian journalist for a Thai English-speaking daily, spent most of September and October on the Thai-Cambodian border, making illegal border crossings into Cambodia whenever they could...
Scholars in Thailand disagree. They are sanguine about Buddhism's long-range prospects in Indochina, since they feel the Gautama's ideas are not incompatible with Communism. Observes Thai Scholar Sulak Sivaraksa: "Christianity and Communism have a lot of ideological conflicts, but this is not the case with traditional Buddhism, which is socialistic in that it champions the equality...
...Thai military officials later said that their artillery had struck a Vietnamese fire base about four miles inside Cambodia. Military casualties were relatively light; the Thais claimed to have recovered 72 Vietnamese dead and lost 22 of their own men. But hundreds of refugees were reported killed, many by a Thai artillery barrage that was lobbed into one of the camps. Others were caught in the crossfire. Two International Red Cross officials and two American photographers were apparently captured by Vietnamese soldiers while they were inspecting the refugee encampment at Nong Chan...