Word: surin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goods it consumes at home. Says Representative Chester Atkins, a Massachusetts Democrat: "Our trade policy sends a message to our partners that Asian lungs are more expendable than American lungs." Many Asians voice resentment about that notion. At the hearings in Washington last week, Thai National Assembly Member Surin Pitsuwan asked, "Where is the concern for humanity once felt by the United States...
...trip to the frontier province of Surin was regarded as a demonstration of U.S. support for Thailand against hostile, Soviet-backed neighbors in Indochina...
...days after the fall of Green Hill, Sihanouk, who nominally heads a tripartite coalition of guerrilla groups including the Communist Khmer Rouge, arrived at the Nong Bua (Lotus Pond) Temple in the Thai town of Surin for the cremation of one of his generals killed during the campaign. The Prince greeted his followers and conferred quietly with the general's widow. "The Vietnamese victory appears to be very impressive," he later conceded. "They have attacked all of the resistance bases. But the truth is that the coalition forces are far from dead. We have lost our biggest stronghold...
...incursion was carried out by elements of Viet Nam's crack 75th Division. It had no discernible military target. There were small probes along a section of the eastern border of Thailand stretching from Surin province in the north to Trat province in the south...