Word: kittikachorn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first glance, the pudgy man in saffron robes begging for a bowl of rice on the streets of Bangkok seemed like just another Buddhist monk. But the man who called himself Sukittikacharo Bhikku ("Honored Everywhere") was recognized last week as Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn, 65, the former dictator, who was toppled from power after a 1973 student uprising...
...backing of both conservative business interests and the National Student Center of Thailand, a potent political pressure group since the student-led rebellion that ousted Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn's military dictatorship in 1973. In foreign policy, he is expected to maintain close ties with the U.S. while developing better relations with China and the countries of the Third World...
...week. "Give me some time so I can wake up." Sanya's bewilderment was understandable. Three weeks ago, he was hastily installed in the Premier's vacant seat when a revolt of Thai students (TIME, Oct. 29) prompted King Bhumibol Adulyadej to oust and exile General Thanom Kittikachorn, General Praphas Charusathiara and Colonel Narong Kittikachorn-the unpopular military trio that had ruled Thailand. Like most of his countrymen, Sanya, formerly rector of Thammasat University, has only gradually recovered from the shock of that brief revolution, which saw scores of Thai students gunned down in the streets of Bangkok...
DURING THE LONG YEARS of the Indochina War, Thailand served as a giant aircraft carrier for the United States military, providing six bases where American bombers refueled before once again bombing Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Thailand was ruled by a rightist military dictatorship--headed by Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn--that used American aid to bulwark their own positions atop Thai society...
Earlier this month, the students revolted unexpectedly, street-fighting the police and the military into submission and forcing Kittikachorn into exile. King Bhumibel appointed a moderate premier who was acceptable to the students, and Thailand appears to be moving somewhat to the left--away from American domination and toward a more participatory form of government...