Word: choonhavan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week embarked on its oddest scheme yet to end its self-imposed isolation: a twice-weekly six-hour tourist excursion from Bangkok to the exquisite Cambodian temple complex of Angkor Wat, 140 miles northwest of Phnom-Penh. The round trip, arranged in Bangkok by former Thai Foreign Minister Chatichai Choonhavan, costs an unproletarian $225. On the inaugural flight last week was TIME's Hong Kong correspondent, David DeVoss, who reported that "at first security was so tight, visitors spent most of the afternoon at the airport terminal. At one point, even the open-windowed toilets were placed off limits...
Marcos, presumably, will be only the first in a line of distinguished visitors to China, as other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) line up to secure their own embassies in Peking. Malaysia recognized Peking last year, and Thailand's Foreign Minister, Chartichai Choonhavan, who is scheduled to visit the Chinese capital later this month, has announced that Sino-Thai relations will be established by September. The Thai move has been enthusiastically supported by Singapore's toughly realistic Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, not out of love for China but from the feeling that good...
...Saigon as soon as Tan Son Nhut airport is reopened to international flights. More surprising, Bangkok announced that it was establishing full diplomatic relations with North Korea. When South Korea protested and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos sent a special envoy urging Thailand to "rethink its move," Foreign Minister Chartichai Choonhavan had a blunt reply: "We have already rethought it." Thailand also announced that it would enter into a cultural and technological agreement with the Soviet Union...