Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first it looked like just another coup in Thailand-the 14th since constitutional government was established in 1932. Rebel army units took key buildings in Bangkok last week, sacked the government and installed their own man, General San Chitpatima, 59, the army's deputy commander. Coup tradition dictated that the incumbent, Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanond, 61, step aside for the new soldier-statesman...
Mechai Viravaidya's calling card is a condom. In Bangkok, ambassadors invite him to formal dinners, knowing that he will probably use the occasion to blow up a bright red prophylactic for the host and pass out multicolored birth control pills to the ladies. Sometimes he brings along his latest line in antifertility T shirts or panties bearing the message A CONDOM A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY. Once he passed out free condoms to the entire Bangkok police force, then announced it as his "cops and rubbers" program...
...most of the nation now knows, he will do anything to get his message across. Last year, on the King's birthday, he offered free vasectomies (146 accepted). He makes a prize stud hog available at half price to farmers who agree to practice contraception. He persuaded 241 Bangkok cab drivers to dispense condoms along with family-planning advice, and pays the taxi insurance for cabbies who send in 50 or more people for sterilization; so far, six drivers have qualified. At village fairs and festivals, he shows up in a well-polished minibus to deliver his snake...
Meanwhile, nearly 1,000 journalists gathered at the Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden and at nearby Rhein-Main airport in Frankfurt to await the captives. Each TV network had at least 50 people on hand, some from as far away as Bangkok and Johannesburg. Studios had been set up in the Frankfurt-Sheraton Hotel last October, when it looked as though the hostages would be freed. Said Thomas Cheatham, NBC'S Israel bureau chief, who had been standing by in West Germany for the past four months: "A minimum figure for the watch here alone would be well over...
Another surprise the Crimson hadn't counted on was sickness. McCurdy later called the meet "Harvard vs. Northeastern vs. The Bangkok Flu." With Felix Rippy and Eric Schuler sick, the expected sweep of the two-mile run was impossible. As it turned out, Buck Logan did net an impressive win in that competition with a 9:00.54, but again, nothing seemed to be enough Saturday...