Word: thai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Change of Life. Nobody at first expected much from the latest in a long line of Thai strongmen. A man with a notorious eye for the ladies, he was known as a hard-drinking army boss who had once shocked a dinner party at a Western embassy by slapping a bottle of cognac on the table and swigging from it all evening, explaining that his host's liquor was lousy. His sideline was running the lucrative national lottery. But after ousting Strongman Pibulsonggram, Sarit went off the bottle and then to work, house-cleaning Thailand from top to bottom...
Northern Threat. Still, like everywhere else where living standards are low, Thailand has its problems. During the last few years before he seized power, Thai politicians were junketing off to Red China, and Bangkok newspapers showed a pronounced affection for Communism. No man to take chances, Sarit jailed the suspect politicians and muzzled the press but puts his faith in his economic program to deprive the Communists of the discontent on which they batten...
...months ago, Sarit was offering to send Thai troops into Laos to help the Boun Oum government, if the U.S. was willing to back him up. Now he feels sorely threatened, welcomed Johnson's talk of increased military aid. But he does not now want U.S. troops. Instead, his faith in U.S. resolution shaken, he is talking of shifting to a more neutral stance. Recently he apologized to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Nikolaev for being unable to like Communism, said he would welcome aid from any source. His apparent intent is not to swing Thailand into the Communist camp...
...Security Council soberly discussed what could be done to defend the two countries, just what troops and what weapons would be needed in case the U.S. had to move into the area to defend it against Communist attack. A serious proposition was that South Viet Nam and Thai land might be invited to ask for U.S. help on the ground that they are threatened by outside forces, allowing the U.S. to send in troops to beef up the national armies. The problem of sending U.S. forces into South Viet Nam "is a matter still under consideration," admitted President Kennedy last...
...piece dress, a chic understatement in beige ottoman silk, and her new chef, who had worked through the night to lay on a little buffet of pates, hams, turkeys, lobster thermidor, and Hungarian goulash. Before the dessert, Jackie stood up to welcome the women in words thai women understood...