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Thai Politician-Publisher Kukrit Pramoj 13 years ago took a respite from statecraft and journalism for a brief fling at the movies. In the film version of The Ugly American, Kukrit got surprisingly good reviews for his portrayal of the democratic Prime Minister of a mythical Southeast Asia nation called Sarkhan. The movie Prime Minister was besieged and almost overthrown by Communists, largely because of a meddling U.S. ambassador (played by Marlon Brando...
...chief defender of Thai democracy is the country's sophisticated, aristocratic, Oxford-educated Prime Minister, Kukrit Pramoj, 64. The author of 36 fiction and nonfiction books and for 22 years an acerbic, nationally known newspaper columnist, Kukrit led an incredibly complex 17-party coalition government until January, when a controversy regarding the price of rice forced him to dissolve Parliament. During the ten months he was in power, he concentrated on building up the long-neglected countryside by increasing rice and sugar price supports, requiring banks to invest in local agrarian projects and pumping $300 million in direct grants...
...makes his speech unintelligible and his gestures childlike at times, say visitors to Peking, but Chairman Mao Tse-tung, 81, still rises to the occasion when it comes time to pose with guests like Thailand's Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj and Iraq's Vice President Taha Moheddin Maruf. More mobile, obviously, is the Chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, 61, who surfaced last week in Shansi province to make her first public speech since the chaotic days of the Cultural Revolution more than five years ago. After addressing a conference on Chinese agriculture, Mme. Mao then showed...
...have put the Viet Nam War behind them and harbor almost no bitterness toward the U.S. Indeed, despite some anti-American rhetoric, they hope for a continued strong American presence in Asia. If nothing else, they see the U.S. as a force neutralizing China and the Soviet Union. Seni Pramoj, leader of Thailand's Democratic Party, observed, "We have cock fights in Thailand, but sometimes we put a sheet of glass between the fighting cocks. They can peck at each other without hurting each other. In the cold war between Moscow and Peking, the glass between the antagonists...
...reduced to air and naval forces (an important exception is the 42,000-man U.S. force in South Korea), the non-Communist nations of Southeast Asia have been moving toward accommodation with their Communist neighbors. This was most explicitly spelled out by Thailand's politically skilled Premier Kukrit Pramoj. In a recent speech he observed: "The thrust of our foreign policies is the burying of old grudges, the overcoming of old fears, the opening of new doors...