Word: saen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore arrived in Bangkok ready to join with Thailand in the serious business of creating a new, five-nation economic alliance. But Host Foreign Minister Than-at Khoman decreed pleasure before business. He whisked the diplomats off to the nearby seaside resort of Bang Saen for two preconference days of golf and conviviality. It was a shrewd move. By the time the ministers sat down last week for their formal deliberations, everyone had done so much private lobbying, a consensus had already emerged. "We'd all been so busy implanting ideas in the minds...
...round of 20-hour days was beginning to tell on the President; when he flew into the big U.S. airbase at Sattahip on the Gulf of Siam the next day, he was visibly exhausted. Helicoptering to Kittikachorn's summer residence at the sparkling seaside resort of Bang Saen, the President spent a day relaxing, then headed with Lady Bird into Bangkok for a new round of ceremonies...