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...Thai person to earn a doctorate in law from Harvard in 1985. As deputy prime minister, he oversaw foreign affairs, education, and culture in Thailand. He held the position for only one year before the government was overthrown by a coup d’état last fall. Kriengsak Chareonwongsak, a member of the Thai parliament who is currently a Mason fellow at the Kennedy School, said that Sathirathai played a “much more substantial role in the government” as minister of foreign affairs, a position he held from February 2001 to March 2005. Chareonwongsak...
...Thai Army Secretary Kriengsak Chamanan...
...King himself, NARC's 24-man junta moved swiftly to set up Prime Minister Tanin and an 18-man Cabinet of soldiers, civil servants and technocrats as a "clean hands" government. Among its first official acts was the appointment of a committee to probe graft. As Army Secretary Kriengsak Chamanan, NARC's éminence grise, told TIME Correspondent William McWhirter, "We have learned the lessons of South Viet Nam and Laos. In those countries, corrupted politicians were a main cause of their downfall." It remains to be seen, though, if the committee will be able to investigate...
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