Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ieng Sary, 48, Pol Pot's Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister. Instead of righting, he sent a distress call to Bangkok by way of the Khmer Rouge and was scooped up by a Thai helicopter. One day later, he arrived in Peking pledging that he would fight...
...Bangkok, Thai Premier Kriangsak Chamanand compared the heavy fighting beyond his border to "a fire in a neighbor's house." This blaze, however, cast menacing shadows throughout all Southeast Asia. The most intense heat was generated by the fact that the principal combatants are both wards of the region's two Socialist superpowers. China has long supported Cambodia with arms and guerrilla training. Peking's technicians have been providing expertise in telecommunications and irrigation, while 49 North Koreans attempted (unsuccessfully, as it turned out) to teach the Kampucheans to fly MiG aircraft...
...BANGKOK, Thailand--Vietnamese troops captured the last urban stronghold of the defeated Cambodian government's forces, but the retreating soldiers struck back in isolated attacks and set up mountain and island guerilla bases to carry on the war, Thai sources said yesterday...
...BANGKOK, Thailand--Cambodian rebels have seized the entire country and established a provisional government in Phnom Penh, the revolutionary National United Front for National Salvation said yesterday...
...have been in a desperate attempt to gain international support against such a Vietnamese assault that Cambodia last week embarked on its oddest scheme yet to end its self-imposed isolation: a twice-weekly six-hour tourist excursion from Bangkok to the exquisite Cambodian temple complex of Angkor Wat, 140 miles northwest of Phnom-Penh. The round trip, arranged in Bangkok by former Thai Foreign Minister Chatichai Choonhavan, costs an unproletarian $225. On the inaugural flight last week was TIME's Hong Kong correspondent, David DeVoss, who reported that "at first security was so tight, visitors spent most...