Word: kukrit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makes his speech unintelligible and his gestures childlike at times, say visitors to Peking, but Chairman Mao Tse-tung, 81, still rises to the occasion when it comes time to pose with guests like Thailand's Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj and Iraq's Vice President Taha Moheddin Maruf. More mobile, obviously, is the Chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, 61, who surfaced last week in Shansi province to make her first public speech since the chaotic days of the Cultural Revolution more than five years ago. After addressing a conference on Chinese agriculture, Mme. Mao then showed...
...presence reduced to air and naval forces (an important exception is the 42,000-man U.S. force in South Korea), the non-Communist nations of Southeast Asia have been moving toward accommodation with their Communist neighbors. This was most explicitly spelled out by Thailand's politically skilled Premier Kukrit Pramoj. In a recent speech he observed: "The thrust of our foreign policies is the burying of old grudges, the overcoming of old fears, the opening of new doors...
...While Kukrit's words were directed primarily toward China, Cambodia and North Viet Nam, they were also aimed at Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. Along with Thailand, these sometime rival states now constitute the eight-year-old Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Although the organization is no more than a loose grouping, its leaders are all strong, capable rulers determined to protect their own country's independence...
...airport with banners reading BASTARD FORD, GET YOUR TROOPS OUT! and FORD, YOU DESTROY INTERNATIONAL LAW. Thai government officials denounced the Pentagon's dispatch of Marines and helicopters from the U.S.-operated Utapao airbase to the rescue of the American merchant vessel Mayaguez as "madness"; Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj reacted with what he first described as "displeasure" and later as outright "fury." At week's end an emergency Cabinet meeting voted to recall Whitehouse's counterpart, the Thai Ambassador to the U.S., from Washington for consultation...
...newspaper publisher and columnist, Kukrit, 66, played the role of an Asian Premier in the 1963 movie The Ugly American...