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After Vietnam - The NEW
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RAYE JUST
flown into Tokyo from Bang–
kok. After departing from Bangkok, we
flew over Saigon and South Vietnam.
The truce teams are still trying to stop the
sputtering of gunfire here and there - in the
so-called cease-fire that was supposed to end
the Vietnam war.
The new center of this Indo-China war has
been Saigon. It ·may soon shift to Bangkok.
After my visit there, l'm convinced that Thai–
land may now become the new bastion of the
free world in stopping the Communists'
re–
lentless drive south.
1 flew down into that embattled area of
Southeast Asia, just
as negotiators were
compl e ting the
cease-fire
agree–
ment work. I wanted
to investigate first–
hand the probable
course events will
take, from now.
You haven't been
hearing m ueh
about Thailand -
the war news has
been coming out of
Saigon. Thailand is
immediately to the
west of the war
zone, and 1 predict
you'll be hearing a
good deal more
about Thailand, its
capital, Bangkok,
Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn,
Prime Minister of Thailand.
and its Prime Minister, Thanom Kittikachorn.
As the cease-fire agreement was being
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