Word: thailand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tell you people. the white people of this country have been living off the fruits of the labors of the black, brown, yellow oppressed lives of the world. But these oppressed people have risen up-in Peru, Venezuela, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, throughout the Third World, in the Black colonies, and now at home. In a world-wide revolution of peoples that have proven to be a majority in the world, although they happen to be a minority in this country. The majority is proving that technology can be beaten...
...still the defenders of "peace and freedom" abroad. We are still scrambling from firefight to firefight in a righteous struggle against those "great powers who have not yet abandoned their roles of world conquest." The Communist Monolith rides again, and the dominoes clink and totter on all sides; in Thailand, Indonesia, yes, even in the Philippines (only a few miles off shore). If you closed your eyes, you could hear Lyndon Johnson or John Foster Dulles...
...home, after the first shock?and relief?reaction would depend to a large extent on what the victorious Communists did. If they followed their takeover with a bloodbath and then began to infiltrate neighboring countries like Thailand and Malaysia, the U.S. mood might quickly turn ugly. There would be cries of "Who lost Southeast Asia?" as there once were of "Who lost China?" And, more bitter than the China question (for the U.S. did not fight there): "Who betrayed our boys?" The forces that had argued for withdrawal might well be the victims of harsh political attacks...
Even if South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia fall into the Communist orbit, a case can be made that the cause of democracy and freedom in Asia is considerably stronger than it was ten years ago. Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia have all enjoyed an annual economic growth rate of 8% or more; with the possible exception of Malaysia, these nations have also become more politically stable, while Indonesia, which once threatened to become a Peking satellite, has become aggressively anti-Communist since the overthrow of Sukarno. It may be that the U.S. presence in Viet...
...symbol of the increasingly resented U.S. presence. Teachers, for example, have been told to stop wearing miniskirts because they are "an example of poor Western culture." Nonetheless, Princess Ubol Ra-tana, the King's oldest daughter, sports a mini while shopping in Bangkok's boutiques. Thailand, for all its resentment of Western variations of permissiveness, has long been one of Asia's more lubricious societies. In addition to more than 2,400 brothels staffed by 151,000 prostitutes, there are hundreds of "massage parlors"-where, it is rumored, even massages are sometimes available...