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...round of golf, sampled Bangkok's famous cuisine, and laid on a sightseeing tour that was mostly followed, as it turned out, by Mrs. Lee. Meanwhile the Singapore delegation, including Lee's Foreign Minister and his intelligence experts, huddled in secret talks with Thai Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn and his assistants. What the Singapore visitors had come to propose was the creation of a new regional defense strategy, by Asians and for Asians...
...positions around the headquarters of the National Security Command in Bangkok, and Thais were told to listen for a special radio announcement. The news: Thailand's three-year-old constitution and the Parliament had been summarily abolished and replaced by a military-dominated junta headed by Premier Thanom Kittikachorn. Members of Parliament were allowed to collect $257.14 each in pay and allowances due them...
...surface tranquillity, the coup imposed harsh military rule, complete with martial law, a provision for summary execution, and a prohibition of political gatherings of more than four persons. The new regime is virtually identical with the clique that controlled the former government. Besides amiable, soft-spoken Premier Thanom Kittikachorn, the junta includes tough, earthy Praphas Charusathien, who, as commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, is the most powerful man in the country. Among the members of the Cabinet who are at least temporarily out of a job: Thanat Khoman, a brilliant but unpopular Foreign Minister who helped forge...
Royal Astrologers. In Thailand, precise times for major events are determined by the royal astrologer. Twenty years ago, a Buddhist monk told Thai Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn that he would serve as Premier three times; he is currently in his third term. Thus when a family astrologer recommended a shift in living quarters to avoid inauspicious influences, Thanom and his family forthwith vacated the official residence for nearly a year...
...budgetary deficit of $250 million in 1970, the Bangkok government last week announced that duties and excise rates on more than 200 imported items would be drastically increased, some by as much as 300%. The regime was so worried about the unpopularity of the measure that Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn spent a full hour on TV explaining that Thailand needed more money for arms because of the serious threat on its borders. Thanom indicated that the threat came partly from Thailand's native Communist insurgents, eight of whom were arrested last week. But the gravest danger came, he said...