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Reporter Vernon Loeb.

Reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer Vernon Loeb. He's been reporting from the Far East for the last several years. He'll talk with Terry about the problems facing the region like the explosion of AIDS in Thailand and especially Bangkok; the repression and ethnic fighting in Burma; and the amassing on the Thai/Burmese border of refugees fleeing repression in Burma.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, March 30, 1992: Interview with Andrew Hacker; Interview with Vernon Loeb; Review of Slavenka Drakulic's book "How We Survived Communism."

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