Word: thai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BANGKOK, Dec. 28, 1972 Four armed Palestinian "Black September" terrorists seize Israeli embassy and six hostages, demand release of 36 commandos held in Israeli prisons. After negotiations with Thai government officials lasting 19 hours, they surrender hostages and fly to Egypt...
...French aid organization. When this earnest band reached the Cambodia-Thailand frontier they shouted an appeal through a red bullhorn, asking that they be allowed to cross the bridge to Cambodia with 20 truckloads of food and medicine. Rebuffed, the marchers donated the relief supplies to Cambodian refugees in Thai camps...
...Thai Ngoc An, a physician and ex-political representative from Vinh Cong Province, said that he was fed animal feed and made to work in the fields during his three-year prison stay. Following his release government officials told him his detention had been a "misinterpretation of orders...
...said the communists brainwashed him and in attempts to escape he walked through mine fields. Nearing the Thailand border, he watched as members of the Thai government turned away 7500 of his fellow refugees...
...donations," says Ken Quinn, an assistant to Ray. "But we wanted all of the people of the state involved." In just a month, lowans contributed $250,000. On Christmas Eve a ten-truck convoy loaded with rice, salted fish, soybeans, sugar and medical supplies left Bangkok for the Thai-Cambodian border. On Christmas Day, William Simbro, a reporter for the Des Moines Register, met in a jungle clearing with representatives from Sok Sann, a refugee settlement just inside Cambodia, and presented them with some surgical instruments. The rest of the supplies reached Sok Sann last week...