Word: thailander
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...ever there was a country in need of a program to identify the players, it is cloistered, xenophobic Burma. Particularly in the uncharted "Golden Triangle," where a slice of northeastern Burma meets Thailand and Laos, the situation is a demographer's and political analyst's nightmare. Remnants of a Kuomintang army that fled China at the time of the Communist takeover vie with independent warlords for control of the region's rich opium crop, while armed independence movements representing a bewildering host of ethnic and tribal groups periodically challenge the Rangoon government of General...
...recent rioting in Jakarta was not as serious as the student demonstrations earlier this year in Thailand and South Korea. But it showed that a student protest could explode within one hour into a riot of 100,000 people. That fact was not lost on Suharto's government. The army's own rebellion against Sukarno in 1965 was also preceded by widespread student rioting in the streets of Jakarta...
...offered to soften the terms of a $153 million loan and curb overly aggressive and ruthless private Japanese business practices through a new government agency, to be called The Economic Cooperation Ministry. None of this satisfied the students, who left the meeting threatening to "act against every Japanese in Thailand" unless the government acts to prevent Japanese domination of the economy...
Thai students last week also found time for a demonstration against the U.S. It was sparked by reports in three Thai newspapers that an American CIA agent had sent Premier Sanya a fake letter purporting to be from a Communist insurgent leader in Northeast Thailand and offering a cease-fire in return for autonomy in rebel-held areas. The clumsy gambit, apparently, was to sow disillusion among insurgents by making them believe that their leaders were willing to settle for less than victory over the whole country. The demonstrators demanded the expulsion of Ambassador William R. Kinter; he remained...
...courage not only of the defendants but the friends of the defendants who walked into the lions' jaws...and then the students who brought down Papadopoulos. The students were incredible. And while it's hard to imagine moral force overcoming American Sherman tanks, what the hell? It happened in Thailand, it happened in Turkey, it happened in Korea, although of course they just got another fascist instead...