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265. Race, "China and the War in Northern Thailand," p. 27.
266. Interview with Gen. Ouane Rattikone, Vientiane, Laos, September 1, 1971.
267. Ibid.
268. "Opium War-Take Two," dispatch from Vanderwicken, p. 5.
269. Interview with Gen. Quane Rattikone, Vientiane, Laos, September 1, 1971.
270. The New York Times, August 11, 1971, p. 1.
271. Race, "China and the War in Northern Thailand," p. 28.
272. "Opium War-Take Two," dispatch from Vanderwicken, pp. 4, 6; The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.,
June 19, 1972.
273. The New York Times, AuPust 11, 197 1, p. 1.
274. Interview with the principal of Ban Khwan Public School, Ban Khwan, Laos, August 9, 1971.
275. Race, "China and the War in Northern Thailand," p. 28; Mote, "The Rural 'Haw' (Yunnanese Chinese) of
Northern Thailand," pp. 488, 492-493.
276. Report of the United Nations Survey Team on the Economic and Social Needs of the Opium-Producing
Areas in Thailand, p. 64.
277. Race, "China and the War in Northern Thailand," pp. 21-23.
278. Ibid.
279. Ibid., pp. 29-3 1; the insurgency in northern Thailand is regarded as the "most serious" military problem
now facing the Thai government. (A Staff Report, U.S. Congress, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,
Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia: January 1972, 92nd Cong., 2nd sess., 1972, p. 14.)
280. Alfred W. McCoy, "Subcontracting Counterinsurgency: Academics in Thailand, 1954-1970," Bulletin of
Concerned Asian Scholars, December 1970, pp. 64-67.
281. The Weekend Telegraph, p. 27.
282. According to a 1961 report by Gordon Young, 50 percent of the Meo, 20 percent of the Lahu, 75 percent of
the Lisu, and 25 percent of the Akha tribesmen in northern Thailand have some fluency in Yunnanese. In
contrast, only 5 percent of the Meo, 10 percent of the Lahu, 50 percent of the Lisu, and 25 percent of the Akha
speak Thai or Laotian (Young, The Hill Tribes of Northern Thailand, p. 92).
283. Interview with Col. Chen Mo-su, Chiang Khong District, Thailand, September 10, 1971.
284. Interview with General Krirksin, Chiang Khong District, Thailand, September 10, 1971.
285. Interview with Col. Chen Mo-su, Chiang Khong District, Thailand, September 10, 1971.