Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Music, said yesterday she will spend next year in Hong Kong finishing the transcriptions of three Peking operas she recorded in 1964, and then beginning an outline of topics in Chinese music. She added she was hoping to see operas in Bangkok, Singapore and possibly the People's Republic of China...
...what he eats," says an old German proverb that has proved to be prophetic. Until about 1900, man was what he could get to eat, whether in Boston or Bangkok, and his food was nearly all prepared at or near his eating place. Then came the explosion of the food-processing industry, and humanity came to be distinguished not only by what it ate but by some new diseases related to foods. The most conspicuous dietary change in developed countries over the past 75 years has been an alpine increase in the consumption of hard fats, sugar and superrefined foods...
...road from Vientiane to Thakhek. But as Hanoi's presence grows, so does the traditional Laotian hostility to the Vietnamese. In early spring, Vietnamese troops killed 20 Pathet Lao soldiers who had tried to inspect a convoy of wood heading for Viet Nam. Observes a Western diplomat in Bangkok: "Now even the Communists in Laos are grumbling about the Big Brother Vietnamese...
...coup provided the Communists with their biggest influx of recruits in a decade: an estimated 600 to 1,000 student leftists who fled Bangkok and began training in "liberated" zones and in neighboring Laos. It also polarized Thai politics. "Before the coup," says one Thai counterinsurgency expert, "there were four channels open to anyone with a complaint: Parliament, the newspapers, government officials and the Communists. Now there are only two: the government or the guerrillas...
Government Reform. It is clear that the government needs all the grassroots support it can get. To engineer this, Bangkok is relying in part on the activities of the nation's fastest-growing volunteer movement, the almost 1.5 million-member Village Scouts. Sponsored by the royal family, the scouts preach loyalty to King, country and Buddhism. Besides seeking local allies like the scouts, field commanders claim to have learned from the failures of the U.S. and the Thieu regime in Viet Nam. "If the Thai soldier is corrupt," says an army major, "then the Thais will lose the same...