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...airborne travelers who alighted last week in a steady stream at glittering, jingling Bangkok were apt to think that they had landed in the middle of Shangrila. The chaos that filled the rest of Asia seemed like a distant nightmare. At Bangkok's busy, orderly Don Muang airport, immigration officers smiled toothily at newcomers, whisked them through a onceover-lightly customs inspection, politely urged them to stay as long as possible...
...Dwarf was a five-foot Chinese gunman who had been arrested 15 months ago with 18 others for hijacking a $2,000,000 shipment of gold on its way to Bangkok's Don Muang airport. Now he was out on bail while the case dragged on in Siam's slowpoke courts. So was another chief suspect, a husky retired police captain named Pramote Prathuengphong. The two thieves, it seemed, had fallen...
...Land of the Free." Siamese call their country Muang Thai ("Land of the Free") and are in fact free to drink, to take plural wives...
...Siamese call their country Muang-Thai, which means "country of the free." The system of government is based largely upon that of Britain. Siam lies to the south of China and to the east of India. Its area is 200,148 sq. mi-about four times the size of Pennsylvania...