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Cola wars in Thailand...
...when his friend Richard Nixon was in the White House. After Jimmy Carter moved to Washington, his old Atlanta pal Coca-Cola Chairman J. Paul Austin captured the exclusive right to sell Coke to a billion Chinese. Rarely, though, has the Coke-Pepsi rivalry gone so far as in Thailand, where it has now led to two deaths...
Coke salesmen became increasingly nervous. One of them, identified only as Tin, spotted Pepsi Salesman Thongyu Meksuk putting up Pepsi posters in a small open-air restaurant on the outskirts of Khampaeng Phet, about 200 miles northwest of Bangkok. Such point-of-purchase advertising is important in Thailand, since about 96% of soft drinks are consumed where they are bought. Coke and Pepsi have long squabbled over prime space in cafés and other public places...
...Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand...
DIED. Chester Gorman, 43, archaeologist and teacher of anthropology whose excavations in northern Thailand unearthed evidence of the world's earliest agricultural and Bronze Age society, predating similar developments in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley by several centuries and casting doubt on the theory that the Middle East was a "cradle of civilization"; of cancer; in Sacramento...