Word: muang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American military power if it is ever required. The funnel for that infusion of men and equipment will be a new deep-water port and mammoth airfield at Sattahip on the Gulf of Siam. With its pair of 11,500-ft. runways, fuel pipeline to the railheads at Don Muang, giant ammunition storage piers, the $75 million Sattahip complex is the largest military construction job in all of Asia, phasing into operation over the next two years...
...Thailand, but in these times a country has to depend on collective security." Piling into Thai army trucks, the marines sped through streets where saffron-robed Buddhist monks wandered with begging bowls, and past klongs (canals) filled with naked children swimming happily among pink and white lotuses. At Don Muang airport on the city's outskirts, the morning temperature had already reached 95°. U.S. transport planes, flown in from Japan, swiftly airlifted the marines to Udon in northeastern Thailand, only 40 miles from the Mekong River and Vientiane, capital of Laos...
...Boeing 707 had barely rolled to a stop at Bangkok's Don Muang Airport last week when the tall, tanned Texan set to work. Looking straight across the welcoming red carpet at Thailand's tough little Premier Sarit Thanarat, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson declared: "We will honor our commitments for the cause of freedom. We will stand by our friends. We will not falter, Mr. Prime Minister. We will not fail...