Word: panyarachun
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...delicate move, Thailand's King last week tiptoed past a military-backed contender and, after consultations with political leaders, appointed Anand Panyarachun, 59, a former diplomat and businessman, to be interim Prime Minister for the second time. Initially installed by the military following a February 1991 coup, Anand ran Thailand's most honest and competent government in decades before stepping down last March. His sensitive task now: to organize new elections and extricate the military from politics in response to last month's bloody pro-democracy street clashes...
...told reporters that he had never planned to attend the Teach-in, and that a minor embassy official would represent the South Vietnamese government. And the Thai Embassy in Washington said that it has never heard of Anand Sandering Ham-the scheduled speaker, it turned out, would be Anand Panyarachun, Thai Ambassador to Canada, whose Embassy was quartered in the Sanderingham Building...
...ANAND PANYARACHUN, Ambassador Acting Permanent Representative of Thailand to the United Nations
...beginning of that week that the Ambassador would not appear. Checking further, we learned that the Royal Thai Ambassador to the United States had no knowledge of the Teach-In, and that his name did not resemble Anand Sandering Ham; later we learned that the scheduled speaker was Anand Panyarachun, Royal Thai Ambassador to Canada. And it is worth noting that Pasztor stuck to his statements that the South Vietnamese Ambassador would appear until Caploe told him of his conversations with the Embassy, and only then announced that the actual speaker would be Nguyen Hean, a minor official...
...cancellation of the teach-in was "a sad episode," Panyarachun said. "While we were being accused of being murderers, freedom of speech was murdered by a minority group...