Word: sarit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poured across the border to train Pathet Lao troops in guerrilla and conventional warfare. In 1957 the U.S. grew alarmed, began casting about for a rightist leader to counter the Communists. It found him in General Phoumi Nosavan, a tubby but talented field commander whose cousin, the late Strongman Sarit Thanarat of Thailand, was a firm supporter...
Fear of the Future. Next, Thailand would be severely threatened. In Bangkok last week, the Great Emerald Buddha, Palladium of the Kingdom, had been dressed in his summer costume of emerald-encrusted gold filigree-a ritual uninterrupted by political tension following the recent death of Strongman Sarit Thanarat. Though a scandal involving Sarit's finances has been tossed into the lap of his successor, General Thanom Kittakachorn, and in the north a pocket of pro-Red outlaws persists, anti-Communist Thailand is still the stablest country in the neighborhood. But it would -have a hard time holding up amid...
Ever since Thailand's tough Premier Sarit Thanarat died last December of a variety of ailments aggravated by hard work and high living, his body has rested in a fetal position inside a pagoda-shaped golden urn. Last week, at the end of the 100-day mourning period, Sarit's remains were cremated in an elaborate ceremony attended by King Bhumibol, Queen Sirikit, the government, the diplomatic corps, as well as a spike-helmeted funeral band and contingents of umbrella-carrying Buddhist priests. Sarit will be remembered as one of the few leaders in Southeast Asia who managed...
...rumors began last month when Sarit's eldest son, army Major Setha Thanarat, demanded that the courts appoint him executor of his father's estate. Setha charged that his stepmother, thirtyish, comely Thanpuying Vichitra Thanarat, had deliberately underestimated Sarit's assets at $650,000, and had hidden away for her own use millions of dollars in cash, jewelry and land deeds. The press, which Sarit had kept in tight check throughout his reign, gleefully dug through the records and discovered that Sarit had owned or held an interest in a trust company, a brewery, 51 automobiles...
...stories have embarrassed the government of Sarit's successor and old crony, General Thanom Kittakachorn, who appointed a five-man committee to investigate the charges. Critics claim that Sarit siphoned $12 million out of the earnings of the national lottery and channeled it into pseudonymous bank accounts. No one denies that the money disappeared, but there is no evidence so far that Sarit used the bulk of the funds for himself. His "unorthodox way of handling finances," say his defenders, was caused by the fact that the slow National Assembly often delayed budgetary requests; as a result Sarit used...