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WHEN SUTHICHAI YOON left Thailand last September and came to Harvard as a Nieman Fellow, the 32-year-old magazine editor of Bangkok's Nation Review had spent a decade playing a game with which few American journalists are even familiar--the game of controlled press...
...nation where papers are regularly closed down and all other forms of media are government owned, Yoon and newspapermen like him tread a continual tightrope between their desire to maintain journalistic integrity and their need to avoid government wrath. It is a path which at times becomes exceedingly risky...
Sitting in the cushioned and carpeted library of the Nieman Foundation, surrounded by less restricted publications like The London Times and The Washington Post, Yoon recalls whispered threats, censored stories, and the tales of reporters who spent eight to ten years in jail for visiting China...
Suthichai Yoon, a political analyst for the daily Bangkok Post, called on the government to act with understanding in regard to communist "sympathizers," who are in reality only non-political villagers forced to aid the guerrillas. "Probably," he explains, "this is one reason why we have been told that the number of local people turning to the idealism of communism is increasing. In fact, some of our officials have been forcing the figure to increase...
...More familiarly known by the Korean version of his name, Yoon...