Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the Communist government of Laos allowed a twelve-man U.S. "technical" team, including two explosives experts and a medic, to enter the country, excavate the crash site and hunt for the victims. Late in the week, a U.S. embassy spokesman in Bangkok reported that the searchers found portions of human bones that might be those of missing crewmen...
...parallel development, Hanoi told the U.S. two weeks ago it had "information" on additional M.I.A. remains. The Vietnamese embassy in Bangkok has said informally that five sets of remains may be turned over to the U.S. within a month. Since 1975, Viet Nam has released the remains of 93 Americans to the U.S., including the bones of six U.S. war casualties that were returned last July. The U.S., which has accused Viet Nam of hoarding American dead for diplomatic leverage, possesses one five-year-old intelligence report that says about 400 bodies of American servicemen were stored in a Hanoi...
Thant K. Myint-U '87, who had just flown in from Christmas vacation in Bangkok, overcame his exhaustion to see the Secretary because, he said, his grandfather had served as a U.N. Third Secretary General and Myint-U thought it would be nice to "come say hello...
...with Thailand, were awakened by the sound of artillery and mortar shells exploding in and around their sprawling bamboo village. By 7 a.m. an estimated 1,000 Vietnamese infantrymen, led by armored vehicles, had fought their way into Rithysen (also known as Nong Samet), about 140 miles east of Bangkok. Their aim: to destroy the camp and other centers of opposition to the Viet Nam-backed Kampuchean government of Heng Samrin, and to drive the refugees into Thailand. An estimated 55 resistance fighters and 63 civilians died in the assault, according to guerrilla sources...
...visit to Manila, where he met with representatives of a Philippine construction company with connections to the government of President Ferdinand Marcos. After being whisked through customs, Gwynne found a red Jaguar and a pretty 20-year-old woman at his disposal. "The girl was unexpected," he wrote. "Bangkok Bank gave me a silver Lincoln but no girl." After returning home, Gwynne, at the urging of his superiors, arranged for his bank to give a $10 million loan to the Philippine company, which later failed to meet its payments...