Word: thai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Honest. Everywhere, skeptics were alert for signs of a fix, but hard evidence of dishonesty was hard to come by. In the village of Thai Hiep Thanh in Tay Ninh province on the Cambodian border, a reporter watched suspiciously as Warrant Officer Le Van Thanh marched his platoon of armored troops into the school-house voting station. Had he told his men how to vote? he was asked. No, he replied, why should he? He himself had voted for Civilian Huong. On the outskirts of the Delta city of Can Tho, Farmer Ly Van Tarn found the procedures...
...Third Army" of General Lee Wun-huan, headquartered near the Thai city of Chiang Mai, and the "Fifth Army" of General Tuan Hsi-wan, with a base camp near Chiang...
...government contract might end his visit to a government official by letting a well-filled wallet slip to the floor and exclaiming: "Why, you've dropped your wallet with 50,000 bahts [$2,400] in it!" One foreign contractor who did just that was dumfounded when the Thai official calmly replied, "Oh, no, I dropped my wallet with 150,000 bahts...
What is special about these business leaders is that they are all women. One of them, Mrs. Tran Thai Muor, is vice president of the Saigon Chamber of Commerce. Another, Miss Bich Tuy Truong Thi, is general manager of Socipha, a drug manufacturing house. Others are involved in retail selling, manufacturing, pharmacetuicals, chemicals and textiles, import-export business...
...York's business, publishing and art communities. By happy coincidence, the museum was exhibiting a 5,000-year panorama of royal objets d'art and artifacts entitled "In the Presence of Kings," to which the young monarch presented an exquisite 18th century gold sword. "The Thai people are a fighting people," said Bhumibol. "We have kept our liberty and independence for hundreds of years. We are not militant. We just have to fight to keep the most essential thing for a man. And that is freedom...