Word: sarit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bhumibol's first big test came in 1957, when he tacitly supported Army Chief Sarit Thanarat's takeover as Premier. Partly in gratitude, partly to rally public support for his own rule, Sarit consciously set out to build up the image of the tall, spare King and his comely Queen. He soon found the maturing King to be far more than a complaisant figurehead. When the World Court awarded a frontier temple to Thailand's traditional enemy, Cambodia, Sarit was ready to refuse to hand it over. Bhumibol said the court's order would be obeyed...
Something of a Puritan. During Sarit's five years of rule, he and the King worked closely together to boost the Thai economy, set up development programs for the troubled northeast. It was an unlikely partnership. Sarit...
Chin Up. Controversy is nothing new to the businessman who controls 60% of the bank's stock, President Chin Sophonpanich, 54. He made-and lost -several fortunes in the export-import trade, fell out with the late Prime Minister Sarit Thanarat, and lived outside the country from 1957 until last year. Even in his long exile in Hong Kong, Chin used his wide international contacts to build up the bank's foreign business, left its local affairs in the hands of a youthful staff. Whatever its reservations about Chin, the government is happy to see his bank prosper...
Help from Rockefellers. One of the firms is headed by San Francisco-born Lewis Cykman, 52, who came to Bangkok to make ice cream, instead went into the silk trade, expanded with financial help from the wife of the late Prime Minister Sarit. Though she has dropped out, Cykman's Star of Siam is now worth about $500,000. His plant works two shifts daily, weaving silks for his four Bangkok stores, three foreign branches and his busy export trade. Next Cykman intends to sell public shares to help finance a 100-loom weaving plant in northeast Thailand...
Premier Thanom also eased another Sarit repression: out of Lardyao Prison came 15 Thai journalists who had been jailed for far-left political sympathies. Thanom can afford to be confident. Thailand today is Southeast Asia's stablest country, both politically and economically. A "constituent assembly" is currently drafting a new constitution, and Thanom is planning to hold parliamentary elections some time next year to set up a new civilian regime. Whatever the election outcome, to most Thais the voting will be an anticlimax after the election of Pook...