Word: siam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however. In Central Park last week, a policeman came up and ordered Bob Weatherwax, the son of her famous trainer, Rudd, to put her on a leash. "This dog never wears a leash," protested Weatherwax. "This is Lassie!" Responded the cop: "Right, and I'm the King of Siam. Now get a leash, or I'll have to arrest...
...countryside; thousands, including Communists, were purged and killed, and thousands more fled the country. Obsessed with their long hatred of a powerful neighbor, the Cambodians forced Viet Nam to withdraw from the Parrot's Beak. The Khmer Rouge, meanwhile, also occupied several disputed islands in the Gulf of Siam, forcing Vietnamese to leave. After that, relations between the two neighbors disintegrated into a series of border raids punctuated by ineffectual attempts to negotiate their differences...
...looks out over "the watershed of the Mississippi, the valleys of Ohio and the plainslands of Missouri, a continent in itself as surely designed for America's use as a woman's womb for the seed of humanity"--and memories of the red loess in the mountains of Siam. The whole thing gets to be a little diffuse...
...mention" the stock to Mitsui & Co., a U.S. affiliate of a Japanese trading house, but adds rather lamely that "the trust sold it, I didn't. They could have refused the sale." In any case, Mitsui did buy, at $5 a share, 100,000 shares of Siam Kraft Paper Co., a Thailand concern that Kearns founded. At the time (1972), Proxmire estimates, the stock was worth no more than $1.75. While Kearns was head of the Ex-Im Bank, which makes low-cost loans to foreign firms so that they can buy American exports, the bank approved 37 separate...
...nightfall on the Gulf of Siam, U.S. forces were massing for the assault. The amphibious brigade from the 3rd Marine Division had been flown aboard an Air Force C-141 transport from Okinawa to Utapao, over the protests of the Thai government, which had been trying to head off trouble with the neighboring Cambodians by refusing the U.S. permission to launch attacks from Thailand. Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj of Thailand ordered the Marines to leave by Thursday morning or face unspecified "serious and damaging" circumstances. Meanwhile, the Holt and the Wilson had closed in on Koh Tang; the Coral...