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...military men stationed in Thailand, some 28,000 are Air Force pilots, mechanics and othsr ground-support personnel who maintain or fly 300 strike aircraft and 250 support planes from six U.S.-operated bases. Under Thailand's "gentlemen's agreement" with the U.S., the bases are considered Thai bases and are commanded by Thai officers. Thai air police control access to the bases; U.S. air police who help them cannot even carry guns. Command of the American units, however, lies with U.S. wing commanders and their Seventh Air Force headquarters in Saigon...
Detecting Fingerprints. Out of the Thai bases flies the most extraordinary air-combat team that has ever been as sembled. From Udorn, just 40 minutes by air from Hanoi, supersonic, unarmed RF-101 and RF-4C reconnaissance jets streak into target areas immediately before and after a raid to click pictures. From Korat, Takhli and Ubon come the F-105 Thunderchiefs and F-4C and F-4D Phantoms that actually deliver the bombs. From U-Tapao airfield in the Gulf of Siam, the largest jet field in Southeast Asia, four-engine KC-135 refueling tankers take...
...North Vietnamese often park their SAM units right in the middle of proscribed areas. "The other day I went in to hit a bridge," one F-105 pilot at Takhli told TIME Correspondent Louis Kraar, who was permitted last week to make a rare, one-man visit to the Thai bases. "But I couldn't strike a SAM site because it was near a harbor. We lost two planes as a result." The hottest, most heavily defended area, of course, is the 60 sq. mi. surrounding Hanoi; American pilots call it "the Barrel." "You just develop tunnel vision," says...
...Honest. Everywhere, skeptics were alert for signs of a fix, but hard evidence of dishonesty was hard to come by. In the village of Thai Hiep Thanh in Tay Ninh province on the Cambodian border, a reporter watched suspiciously as Warrant Officer Le Van Thanh marched his platoon of armored troops into the school-house voting station. Had he told his men how to vote? he was asked. No, he replied, why should he? He himself had voted for Civilian Huong. On the outskirts of the Delta city of Can Tho, Farmer Ly Van Tarn found the procedures...
...Thailand has been waging a long, lacerating war against Communist guerrillas. To combat some 1,800 terrorists operating in the country's 15 Northeastern provinces, Premier Thanom Kittikachorn's government has sent 15,000 troops and civilian volunteers into the area. But last week it was the Thai security police who struck at the very power center of the insurgency. In a predawn roundup, they arrested 33 of the country's top Communist leaders, including twelve Central Committee members of the outlawed Communist Party of Thailand...