Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomats who fell into Dick Nixon's "cornball" category during the Vice President's recent African trip): Don Carroll Bliss, 59, now foreign service inspector in the State Department and a hardworking, unobtrusive career officer who has done duty in Ottawa, London, Calcutta. Paris, Athens, Bangkok, Singapore and Djakarta during his 34 years with the foreign service...
Airman Bush said the adventure began when a fellow passenger on a Bangkok-Hong Kong commercial airline flight confided to him: "I've been contacted to find a pilot to fly someone out of China." The passenger, said Bush, turned out to be a British travel agent, based in Bangkok, by the name of Mike Sullivan. Pilot Bush and his new friend continued in time-tested fashion: they met a "beautiful Chinese girl" in a Hong Kong restaurant, and she begged them to undertake an "errand of mercy" to save the boy, who was being held as a hostage...
...only did Pibul lead all other candidates in Bangkok, but the sole woman candidate elected turned out to be his wife, Lady Laiad. True enough, two of Pibul's ministers were defeated and at least 26 seats had fallen to Nai Khuang and his Democrats, but at week's end, with 135 seats accounted for, Pibul's men had won 77-more than enough to assure the Premier control of even the free half of Parliament...
...happy. The Premier, disappointed in his hopes for "a landslide like Eisenhower's," retired to the seashore in a pet. Nai Khuang and his fellow Democrats, egged on by Redlining leftists (who got only nine seats). declared that they had been defrauded, and demanded nullification of the Bangkok election. Crowds of protesters began to mass on the streets...
...this point, would-be Democrat Pibul apparently decided there was something to be said for the old book-learned techniques after all. At 7, one morning, Bangkok Radio suddenly announced that the Premier had proclaimed a nationwide "state of emergency," banning political meetings of more than five people. Then, as Thai air force Sabre Jets screamed over the city, the impromptu news broadcast gave way to the stirring strains of Marching Through Georgia...