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TONY CAMPBELL'S TRIP TO BURMA



Dawn Star wrote:
> 
> Perhaps Campbell should stay home and study foreign policy before
> junking out to Burma to talk drug-eradication; it would be more useful
> that he send firm determined message to talk junta-eradication. ds
> 
> nice trip, huh? and us tax payers pay his bill. Or did he pick up some
> campaign envelops on the way through Rangoon? Don't be a fool. In this
> world, now more than every, Money talks.
> 
> ds
> 
> Julien Moe wrote:
> >
> > VIA LEXIS NEXIS
> > NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE / Quandary on Burma and Drugs
> > San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco, Calif.; Dec 15, 1999; Lewis Dolinsky               Adams, Gerry
>  "I went in with
> > the government," Campbell said in a telephone interview, "but they (the
> > tribesmen) were the
> > law."
> >
> > Campbell has no reason to think that the junta will fall. He acknowledges
> > that investment
> > needed to provide roads to get rice to market will shore up a brutal regime
> > that voided
> > elections won by Suu Kyi's party in 1988. He also knows that elements within
> > the government
> > and military profit from drugs; Burma runs on drugs. But he was told by
> > neighboring
> > Thailand's deputy foreign minister, Sukhumbhand Paribatra, "We don't approve
> > of the
> > government of Burma, but we do work with them on drug eradication and you
> > should be open
> > to doing the same." Campbell is undecided. A meeting with the State
> > Department on Monday
> > may help make up his mind.
> >
> > Full Text:
> > Copyright Chronicle Publishing Company Dec 15, 1999
> >
> > Members of Burma's junta, including one of its big three, were pleasant to
> > South Bay Republican Tom
> > Campbell when he met them recently in Rangoon. They want an end to the U.S.....
> 
> .... Campbell has no reason to think that the junta will fall. He
> acknowledges
> > that investment needed to provide
> > roads to get rice to market will shore up a brutal regime that voided
> > elections won by Suu Kyi's party in 1988.
> > He also knows that elements within the government and military profit from
> > drugs; Burma runs on drugs. But
> > he was told by neighboring Thailand's deputy foreign minister, Sukhumbhand
> > Paribatra, "We don't approve of
> > the government of Burma, but we do work with them on drug eradication and
> > you should be open to doing
> > the same." Campbell is undecided. A meeting with the State Department on
> > Monday may help make up his
> > mind.
> >
> > Since returning December 2 from his Asian tour -- a day in Thailand, five in
> > Vietnam, four in Burma --
> > Campbell has been running hard for the GOP Senate nomination to oppose
> > Democratic incumbent Dianne
> > Feinstein. Burma policy is not expected to play a big part in that election.
> > Drug policy might.