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Says Kukrit Pramoji, a leading Thai journalist: "The prime desire for most Asians in this region is to write 'Yankee Go Home' on every wall. It's in their subconscious, even though they realize the Americans mean well and we need their protection. Now we're trying to build a substitute for the United States-a United States of Asia. That's the dream now." It is only a paper dream, when measured against the near chaos that prevails in much of Asia. Still, it is significant that Asian countries no longer look to Communist...
...Communists succeed in their aggression," said Thai Premier Thanom Kittikachorn, "we would be the next target. This action is being taken in direct defense of Thailand." Thailand turned a deaf ear to Hanoi's raucous denunciation of this "new and odious act of treason by the reactionary Thailand government clique." After all, about a third of the guerrillas who are operating in its northeast are Vietnamese who have slipped across the Mekong River from Communist redoubts in Laos to join Chinese-trained Thais and some members of the Pathet Lao in spreading terror through the region...
...Thai-based F-4C Phantoms and F-105 Thunderchiefs averaged 225 missions a week against North Vietnamese targets, which ranged from rail centers (50 strikes) and radar sites (110) to bridges (1,900) and barges (1,850). Helicopter rescue units, which lift downed U.S. airmen from the heart of North Viet Nam, fly out of Nakhon Phanom and two other bases...
...biggest of the new Thai bases, all leased individually from the Bangkok government, is U-Tapao, part of the giant sea and air complex at Sattahip, 80 miles southeast of Bangkok. U.S. Air Force KC-135 jet tankers already fly from its 11,500-ft. runways, and Washington hopes that Thailand will soon approve the transfer to U-Tapao of the B-52 heavy bombers that now must make a 5,000-mile run from Guam to bomb in Viet Nam. Fearful of direct North Vietnamese retaliation, Thai officials are wary about granting such approval. "If the B-52 question...
Coursing the Jungles. That interest is already threatened by the Red insurgency in the northeast. The pattern of violence-assassination of rural officials, propaganda meetings held at gunpoint-resembles Viet Nam a decade ago. Earlier this month, for example, a band of 20 Communist terrorists ambushed a Thai police patrol in Nakhon Phanom province, killed two policemen and wounded the others. Already Thai army patrols with U.S. advisers are coursing the jungles in hopes of nipping the insurgency before it can get out of control. To that end, an Allied victory in Viet Nam would be even more effective...