Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lashed by monsoon rains, sodden Bangkok slowly goes under...
...people are shot when a group of desperate families raids a flood-control embankment. The wounded raiders are seeking to drain the water from their suburban Bangkok district; the gunman is protecting his dryer neighborhood. Elsewhere in the sodden Thai city, slumdwellers stage boat races in water fouled with raw sewage, and medical teams distribute antityphoid vaccine and foot-fungus ointment. It is monsoon season in Southeast Asia, and as this year's rains have made all too obvious, Bangkok (pop. 5.5 million) is slowly sinking...
...lodged sharp protests with the Laotian government over the Vietnamese military presence. Underlying the hostilities, though, is a less visible effort by Thailand to encourage a three-year-old attempt by the Laotian government to achieve a more moderate form of socialism and one independent of Viet Nam. TIME Bangkok Bureau Chief David De Voss recently traveled to Laos. His report...
...into Thai territory, directing artillery fire at Thai villages and shelling a highway. The Thais angrily responded by sending F-5E fighter planes to dislodge Vietnamese soldiers and by dispatching a note of protest to the United Nations, charging the Vietnamese with "unprovoked and blatant acts of aggression." In Bangkok, the ambassadors of Viet Nam and the Soviet Union, which supports Viet Nam, were summoned to the foreign ministry for a stern lecture...
...ALMOST a Renaissance man. Starting out at 26 as the president of an Ohio bank. Charlie Kirkwood has since worked as a publisher of a newspaper in Bangkok, a gandy dancer on the Alaskan railroad, a war-time reporter in Pakistan and Vietnam, and the founder of a prestigious law firm in Thailand. But now the man who describes himself as "an entrepreneur by nature" is back doing what he most enjoys--producing a revival of the hit musical Godspell, playing this month at the Charles Playhouse in Boston...