Word: sarit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Security Council, President Kennedy decided to about double U.S. military aid for South Viet Nam, to some $80 million a year. Kennedy has already sent General Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman to Southeast Asia to reassure Thailand's Marshal Sarit Thanarat and South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. This week he will dispatch Lyndon Johnson to Saigon to see "what further steps could most usefully be taken" to bolster South Viet Nam against the Communist tide...
...from the British and French that the only feasible course for apathetic Laos was Kong Le-style neutralism, the U.S. had pushed for and helped secure the victory for General Phoumi. But once ensconced in Vientiane, Phoumi (who is a second cousin and staunch admirer of pro-Western Strongman Sarit Thanarat in neighboring Thailand) showed no more zeal than any of his predecessors for running the Communists to ground. Though he is described as a "strongman," was he strong enough, or determined enough, to battle the Pathet Lao into submission and enforce peace? It seemed doubtful. Perhaps the best that...
Died. General Phao Sriyanond, 52, one of a triumvirate that toppled the Thailand regime in 1947 (a second member, Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, still rules the country), who frequently consulted astrologists while enhancing his twin sources of Siamese power-at least 20 prosperous business ventures, a 40,000-man national police force more powerful than the army; of a heart attack; in exile in Geneva...
...prince in Vientiane cannot tell a Red from a banyan tree. Several leaders of Laos' 28,000-man army - armed, trained and paid by U.S. aid-support Phoumi's right-wing rebellion. Also working for the general is the fact that he has had help from Marshal Sarit, strongman of the neighboring kingdom of Thailand, whom he calls uncle (actually, he is a first cousin once removed). Vientiane gets all its fuel and most of its food from Thailand, and Sarit has in effect imposed a blockade simply by closing the border across the Mekong River from Vientiane...
...good standing of SEATO. Thailand has not yet asked for U.S. rocket bases nor have they been offered. Militarily, rockets are probably not the appropriate answer to Communist penetration in a small neighboring nation. But the U.S. State Department, weary of hearing only the sound of complaints, found Sarit's voice a pleasant change. Said Sarit: "We are prepared to meet steel with steel anytime...