Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kukrit, who heads the right-of-cen-ter Social Action Party, lost to his older brother-and political enemy-Seni Pramoj, 70, leader of the conservative Democrat Party. The Democrats swept all 28 National Assembly seats in Bangkok-including Kukrit's-and won 114 nationwide. Three military-backed parties agreed to join the Democrats in forming a Cabinet, which means that Seni will control at least 206 of the 279 seats in Parliament...
Last week Dr. Boonsanong Punyod-yana, 39, the articulate, American-educated secretary-general of the Socialist Party, was gunned down in his car while returning home from a political meeting. Later in the week a bomb exploded at dawn in Bangkok's Rama VI Engineering School and killed three students. In all, there have been a dozen deaths related to the current election campaign...
...whom had been seized in the Central Highlands capital of Ban Me Thuot and held for 7% months. Among them were nine Americans including U.S. Consular Officer James Lewis, five missionaries and the six-year-old daughter of a missionary couple. TIME Correspondent David Aikman met the returnees in Bangkok and cabled this account of their ordeal...
...evade the government's jerry-built censorship. For a month some overseas journalists in New Delhi had escaped the censor's leaden fist by telephoning or telexing their copy direct to their home offices, or by flying out of the country to file from Beirut or Bangkok and then flying back a few days later. The Indian government, while it barred distribution of some foreign publications like TIME and Newsweek, tolerated the practice...
...capital later this month, has announced that Sino-Thai relations will be established by September. The Thai move has been enthusiastically supported by Singapore's toughly realistic Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, not out of love for China but from the feeling that good relations between Peking and Bangkok will enhance the stability of the entire region. The remaining member of ASEAN, Indonesia, will probably find the move of its neighbors toward China difficult to resist...