Word: thai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French are gone from Southeast Asia, but there's a lingering trace of Talleyrand in Vu Van Thai, South Vietnam's ambassador to the U.S. Just as Talleyrand spent the Terror safely secluded in the United States, so did Thai work as a U.N. staff member in Togo, during the seven coups and dozen reshuffles since the fall of Diem. Thai's return suggests that he has mastered Talleyrand's chameleon-like ability to shift positions and survive...
Although Ambassador Thai once advised Ho Chi Minh, he now represents Saigon in a war against the Communist; and although he was once a high level minister to Diem, he now belongs to a regime that helped eliminate Diem. This facility of making contrary things seem compatible extends even to his dress. During our interview in the Quincy House guest suite, the Ambassador wore a continental black suit with green socks, a blue tie, and oxblood shoes; yet he still looked natty. Nor did he find it contradictory to attribute the stability of the Ky regime to the cooperation...
...Thai, South Vietnamese ambassador to the United States, praised U.S. good intentions in Southeast Asia and predicted a strong democracy for South Vietnam in a speech last night at Emerson Hall...
...will dedicate a $28.4 million dam across a tributary of the mighty Mekong River. Part of an ambitious, internationally financed effort to convert the Mekong's 2,625 miles of untamed torrent into a source of prosperity, the Nam Pong dam will not only store irrigation water for Thai farms but will provide electric power for both Thailand and neighboring Laos, part of it over jointly owned trans mission lines...
...leading evangelist of the new spirit is the governor of the Bank of Thailand, Dr. Puey Ungphakorn. Publicity-shy Puey, 49, holder of a Ph.D. in economics from London University, refuses honors and decorations, keeps his birth date a secret in order to thwart the Thai custom of showering public figures with presents, and tends zealously to his three jobs-at the bank, as director of fiscal policy for Thailand's Finance Ministry and as dean of the economics faculty at Thammasat University. Last month Puey quietly put together a formal alliance of central-bank governors from Ceylon, Laos...