Word: reached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long after Correspondent Louis Kraar opened our new bureau in Bangkok last fall, he intensified the preparations for a cover story on the King and Queen.* Among the sources he wanted to reach were, of course, top government officials, including Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn (whose garden ultimately was the scene of one interview). More complicated was getting an interview with King Bhumibol, who rarely holds conferences with foreign newsmen and even more rarely gives permission for direct quotation. That interview required not only the King's consent but also formal approval by the Thai Cabinet...
Hard-top highways, built with U.S. aid and thick with speeding new cars and gaily painted trucks, reach out into the countryside to draw off the surfeit of Thailand's bounty for world markets. Trains of wooden barges riding low in Bangkok's muddy Chao Phraya River carry rice, corn, copra, reams of incomparable Thai silk, jute-and illicit opium-to export. With the Thai annual growth rate of 7% a year, the baht (formerly called the tical and still worth a nickel), backed by gold and foreign-exchange reserves of nearly $650 million, is one of Asia...
...standing on the world's best-dressed-women list. One recent visit required walking five miles each way to reach a remote village, where the couple presented gifts of food and medicine to the primitive, opium-growing hill people, frequent targets of Red subversion campaigns. Their tribal leaders value nothing more than the tiny silver medals distributed by the King, and increasingly these days refer to themselves, thanks to the King's and Queen's evangelism, as "the children of the Thai...
...puts it, to present a "low silhouette" on the Thai landscape. But inevitably, with the growing accumulation of American manpower and hardware, there are abrasions and mistakes. Early this month, an F-4C from Ubon lost one of its rockets flying over a Thai village. Before search squads could reach the site, village boys began playing with it. It went off, killing four and wounding four more...
...reason for Thai-American cooperation was explained to his subjects by King Bhumibol himself in his New Year's message. "The opposite side has revealed its intention that Thailand is to be the next target of aggression. A very great danger might reach us any day. None of you must be put off your guard...