Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...month, or more than 75 times the monthly earnings of poor laborers, who are the prime victims of the disease. "The new drugs will help the yuppies of the world," says Thailand's Mechai Viravaidya, a parliament member and leading advocate of AIDS prevention in Bangkok, "but for most people with AIDS, it's like a dog looking up at an airplane: he can see it, but he can never get a seat...
...election over, President Clinton is once again free to look goofy--at least when visiting the Pacific Rim. From left: going native in Australia; wearing a Philippine barong tagalog, a gift from President Fidel Ramos; sporting Thai academic garb during a ceremony at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University; and back in traditional American costume on an Australian beach...
From there Nicholson flew on to Bangkok for some time off with the Thai woman he hoped to marry, before heading back to Washington. Meanwhile, the FBI continued the investigation it had begun in January. Agents searched Nicholson's Virginia town house and Chevy van, dredged his computer hard drive, checked his accounts and finally used a hidden camera to videotape him as he photographed documents under his desk. On Nov. 16, the day before his 46th birthday, Nicholson was at Dulles International Airport in Washington, planning to board a flight for New York and from there a connection...
...Nicholson joined the CIA. After almost two years of training, he was posted to Manila, then Bangkok and Tokyo, stations where young agents generally played the complicated game of recruiting spies from among the Soviet and East bloc officials. Some of them were intelligence officers themselves, who attempted in return to recruit the Americans. Within 10 years, fast progress by agency standards, he had landed a station chief's job in Bucharest, Romania...
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