Word: thailand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the similar case of Nixon pledging to end the war by withdrawing American combat forces from Vietnam. Both cases ignore important unstated realities. In the case of Nixon's plan to end the war, it is apparent that 200.000 support troops, advisors, flight crews in Laos and Thailand, and the Theiu government will remain for many years, and that the struggle for Vietnamese liberation will continue. Antiwar groups have attempted to educate the nation to that fact by confrontation tactics with mass demonstrations. When shifting from this conflict to Nixon's hypocrisy about the "quality of life," one fails...
...long the big silver planes roared in over the Plain of Jars and touched down in a rooster tail of dust on the dirt strip at Lat Sen. There were Air America Caribous, C-123s and two four-engined C-130s borrowed from U.S. Air Force bases in Thailand. On some, their markings were painted over in an attempt to maintain the fiction that there is no U.S. military involvement in Laos. The engines never stopped. As doors opened, Laotian and American officials herded refugees aboard, many clutching terrified children as they leaned into the blast of the prop wash...
...month, Kahn is traveling to Asia for six or seven weeks to cover Expo '70. His itinerary will also include Taiwan, Hong Kong, Cambodia, and Thailand. Even though Kahn has made many trips to Asia and has written a book on Micronesia, he still has never been to Vietnam. "I hope to get in there for a day or two to satisfy my curiosity as to what Saigon looks like...
...much as 11,700 years old; the same tests on ancient grain samples found in the Middle East or Latin America show that none are more than 9,500 years old. Thus, says the director of the University of Hawaii expedition. Anthropologist Wilhelm G. Solheim II. Thailand's ancient inhabitants may well have been the world's first farmers...
...least indirectly supported by other evidence of Southeast Asia's prehistoric culture. At the historic Thai village of Non Nok Tha, another University of Hawaii archaeological team has discovered a 3,500-year-old metal ax with a socket for a handle. The unusual implement may show that Thailand's ancient people were able to make tools as sophisticated as those of their Middle Eastern contemporaries, and were probably working with bronze at least 1,000 years before the Chinese-who were previously thought to have taught them the skill...