THAILAND-Exodus from the Jungle

Exodus from the Jungle Bertil Lintner WHEN the well-known Thai author and former legislator, Udorn Thongnoi, surrendered to the police on December 18 last year after four years with the communist guerillas on the Phuphan mountain range in the North-East, the news did not reach the headlines of the Thai Press, He was only the last of many intellectuals who have recently defected from the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) and returned from the jungle.