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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 26, 1963
Drugs Flood Into Thailand Seen as Communist Plot
Ry Robert Miller
CHIANGMAI, Thailand—The narcotics traffic is reported in full swing along the Thai-Burma border, and intelligence sources believe it is part of a Communist plot to overthrow the Thai government.
Border police north of here said mules, trucks and planes are moving the opiates from Yunan Province in China through the Shan states of Burma for world-wide distribution. An estimated 150 tons has been brought down through the mountainous jungles in recent months.
Heroin manufacturing plants are now in full production in the Shan state north of the border town of Mae Sai which has no ban on narcotics.
THAI POLICE said some of it was consigned to Singapore, some to India, but most of it was being smuggled to the United States via Hong Kong.
Thai authorities said much of the heroin-smuggling into Thailand was being done by remnants of the defeated Nationalist Chinese armies still eking out an existence in the forests and mountains that form the border between Burma and Thailand.
THE INTELLIGENCE sources said most of these soldiers have gone over to the Chinese Communists.
The deluge of heroin has created some 10,000 teenage addicts in this northern Thai city and an estimated 100,000 throughout the country, most of them young people.
"The heroin invasion," said one Thai official, "is a two-edged weapon of the Reds. It demoralizes our young people and pays the expenses of the Communist agents and subversives plotting to overthrow the government. By bribes they are attempting to weaken the effectiveness of the border police and undermine our northern defences."
THE BIGGEST SINGLE shipment reported by border sources was a mule train of more than 100 animals which moved from Yunnan to Mae Sai a few weeks ago.
The Burmese tried unsuccessfully to wipe out the narcotics traffic in the Shan states across the border from northern Thailand but said they had inadequate forces to control the situation. The result was the opening of the Union of Burma territory of the Salween River to the use, transportation and manufacture of narcotics.
It has been through this area that the tons of raw opium have been transported to the border refineries.
THAILAND'S PROHIBITION of narcotics has increased the heroin production as the white crystals are easier to smuggle and bring a much higher price on the market.
Cooked opium was quoted at $23 a pound along the border and heroin is selling at $275 a pound, the sources said.
Nearly 85 per cent of the raw opium is used to produce heroin.
BORDER INFORMANTS said the Mae Sai plant is located atop a ridge just inside the Burma border and is protected by a high fence and guards.
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"The entire operation is run by a Chinese syndicate," one reliable source said. "They arrange the supply, refining and smuggling of the drugs which they call 'our black gold'."
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When it is ready for shipment out of the Burma sanctuary, the syndicate uses an underground railway of smugglers to move the heroin across Thailand. One of the airplanes used by the smugglers was intercepted by Thai fighters and forced to land after making a narcotics drop to a ship in the Gulf of Cambodia a few weeks ago.
Two thefts from university buildings were reported to campus police this week.
THE THAI OFFICIALS said the smugglers were actively spreading Communist propaganda among the hill tribes as they crossed into Thailand. Detection and interception is almost impossible, border police said, because of the dense jungle and mountainous terrain.
Two Thefts Total $250
Tools, valued at $225, were stolen from the basement of the new engineering building, July 22, reported Don Haines and Ralph Chronister of the Centropolis transfer company of Kansas City, Mo.
Jewelry was reported taken from a show case on the north wall of Murphy Hall, July 24.
The equipment included a cutting torch, two gauges and 100 feet of hose. The articles were last seen about 5:30 p.m. Monday.
Three rings, valued at $25, were taken from the case, displaying 15 to 20 pieces of jewelry and weaving and ceramic pieces.
Route 66 Rolls Along Maharis Not Missed
HOLLYWOOD — (UPI) — They cringed when George Maharis was suspended and/or walked out of "Route 66" and it was predicted ratings would drop and the show would fold.
Then enter Glenn Corbett, the handsomest guy in Hollywood.
Voila! The ratings are higher than ever and the series has been renewed for next season.
MAHARIS has all but been forgotten in the dust of "Route 66" as Corbett climbed into the passenger seat alongside co-star Martin Milner.
It's an especially sweet triumph for Corbett, who bombed out earlier this year in "It's a Man's World." He stepped from failure to booming success without breaking stride and he's so happy he walks around with a perpetual grin.
"The only wrong note is that I'm always being compared with my predecessor," the new star said. "But I don't feel any pressure."
"IT WAS tough trying to establish the new character all at once. But the segments have become progressively easier. The longer I play the character of Lincoln Case the more I realize he's closer to me than the role I played in the other series."
Before Corbett joined the show it was touch and go whether it would be canceled for next season.
The burden of appearing in every segment of the hour-long show was beginning to tell on the exhausted Milner, and the producers at Screen Gems and CBS were hard put to find a replacement for Maharis.
**IF VIEWERS** hadn't accepted Corbett — and quickly — in all
likelihood the popular Friday night show would have been washed up.
"I was told there was a lot riding on my performance when I signed to do the first show last winter," Glenn admitted. "I was told if it worked out and response from the public was good there was a chance that Linc Case would become a permanent part of the series.
"But it wasn't as bad a jolt as I thought it might be. When I reported for work I discovered I knew some of the crew members from previous guest shots on other programs. That helped a lot.
"AND THEY were all rooting for me, helping me out.
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"It's been a great break for me going from one series right into another. This time I have a chance to play a guy closer to my own age, too.
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