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Digital Object Identifier
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363-07250 to 363-07252
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Title
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Article about the Vietnam War in Thailand
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Description
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Original title: "focus", Keever's title "Thailand Becoming 'Carbon-Copy War' to South Vietnam", Article draft about the war in Thailand, for the Christian Science Monitor
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AI Usage Disclosure
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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Transcript
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Saigon, December 18-Americans in Southeast Asia are
beginning to call Thailand the "carbon copy war. 譯 American officials
wok working in Vietnam, but visiting Thailand for their vacations are
beginning to shudder at the sharp deterioration of events in Thailand
and the resemblance to the previous patterns in Vietnam in roughly
the 1962-1963 period when the American advisory effort escalated. More
American military and civilian advisors are being sent to Theiland, some
of them with Vietnam experience.
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These sources shudder when they heard recently that four
Thai provinces have shifted from civilian to military administrators,
n that sections of one province nor the talaysian border now has a
night curfew because fiftoon policemenft wore recently lost there and
that the Communists are now intimidating government teachers, village
officials and policemen as they onco did in Vietnam in the early sixties
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to strengthen their grip on the village populations.
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One basic problem these sources note is that the high-level
Thai government officials refuse to recon recognize ther' seriousness
of the problem; officially the Thai government views the
insurgency as springing only from Chine so or Vietnamese nationals
now living in Thailand, but long of exposed to the political
apparatus of Hanoi and Poking. But, Americans in a position to
know maintain that the insurgency is also widespread among the
Thai nationals, making it thus more dangerous and insidious.
Another problem, similar to Vietnam, is the large-scale corrupto
corruption prevelant within the Thai government, which alionates
the population and thus aids the Communist-inspired insurgents. These
Americans believe the senior Americans working in Thailand are
suppressing the news of the seriousness of the i situation (also
t similar to the Vietnam situation in 1962-63) for fear of
alienating the Thai government officials they must work with.
American military officers in visiting Thailand
predict, that unless radical changes are made there, they will be
based in Thailand in three or four years fighting in the some jobs
positions th they are now assigned to in Vietnam.
(Hank this is the focus column on red bloo countries.
Sorriest I didn't get it mailed. Bev).
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Date
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1967, Dec. 18
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Thailand; Strategy; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Campaigns--Thailand
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B7, F5
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
