Word: postcoup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bail to 2,600 of the 3,000 students arrested at Thammasat. He has also restrained the gung-ho anti-Communist sweeps by the army and police, especially in the capital, and has released all but 200 of the 1,000-odd suspects they had corralled. After the initial postcoup excesses, the government is increasingly aware of the danger of providing Thailand's Communist insurgents with a fresh influx of embittered, educated cadres. The threat was underlined when four top members of Thailand's Socialist Party used clandestine Communist radios to blast the "fascist NARC and the puppet...