Word: thailand
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...farm around 7500 B.C. in the Middle East's Fertile Crescent. Other excavations have shown that he also acquired agricultural skills at roughly the same time in what is now Mexico and Central America. More recent discoveries by members of a University of Hawaii expedition in northern Thailand may well push the birth of agriculture even farther back. The Thai evidence suggests that peoples of Southeast Asia tilled the soil more than 2,000 years before anyone began to farm in the Middle East or the Americas...
Nervous Thais. The greatest challenge of Agnew's tour came earlier in the week, when he visited Thailand. The Thais are nervous about the U.S. Senate's recent limitation of presidential power to send combat forces to their country. Furthermore, American critics have labeled Thai troops serving in Viet Nam-reportedly at a cost of $1 billion -as overpaid mercenaries. Thailand officials wonder if, when the U.S. pulls out of Viet Nam, neighboring Laos will fall to the Communists. Agnew reassured his hosts about Laos, emphasizing U.S.Thai solidarity by reverting to his familiar role of the Administration...
...sure test of the relative success of U.S. pacification efforts in Viet Nam: Will the brass let Bob Hope sleep there? Apparently not. The U.S.O.'s perennial Santa Claus, now on his 19th Christmas tour, is whisked away each night to the Erawan Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Though Terence Cardinal Cooke and other distinguished visitors have been billeted in Viet Nam this year and Bob himself insists that the Bangkok base is just "cheaper and easier," it seems that morale-conscious headquarters will never risk the loss of Hope if they can help...