Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ancient Vietnamese proverb, quoted by Deputy Foreign Minister Vo Dong Giang last week during a visit to Bangkok, had an odd ring. Viet Nam was courting its former enemies and criticizing its former comrades...
Thailand, under a new, less antagonistic regime, welcomed the visit. The jovial Vietnamese were received at Bangkok airport with lilac-scented garlands called puang malais and elegantly chauffeured about town in capitalistic Cadillacs and Lincoln Continentals. There was even a cocktail party for Trinh, to which delegations from foreign embassies were invited...
Thousands of civilians had to be evacuated from Viet Nam border settlements to safer places. One of the evacuees was Nguyen Him Oanh, 26, who decided to keep on moving and finally escaped to Bangkok. "We had to give up our cloth and spice shop and move along the road east," she reported. "Then we had to dig bunkers and bomb shelters. Every day I saw Vietnamese soldiers going toward the border in trucks, with tanks and artillery. Just before I escaped, I saw the bodies of 20 Khmer Rouge laid out along the road. Our soldiers put them there...
...proposed air route between Bangkok and Hong Kong that involved Vietnamese air space was speedily approved in Hanoi even though relations with Thailand had been frosty. Meanwhile, although Hanoi's friendship with Peking is equally cool, Vietnamese Party Secretary General Le Duan recently visited the Chinese capital and came home with $300 million in aid. Le Duan, China watchers believe, also asked Peking to curb Pol Pot's government...
...more ordinary jade stays in Bangkok, where it may be carved into simple bracelets and rings. But the best goes on to Hong Kong, where each year upwards of 8,000 skilled artisans turn the gems tone into 2.5 million pieces of fine jewelry and sculpture. TIME'S David Lawton followed the smugglers' jade trail from Bangkok across the Thai border into the Terry and the Pirates country of southern Burma, where the rebel Karenni tribe holds sway as one of the principal groups of jade middlemen. His report...