Word: thailanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shun them. Says one Cambodian government spokesman: "I have heard about gift horses, but this one is really an old nag." Last year's U.S. aid to Cambodia: $35 million -part of it for a modern highway and construction of a deep-water port on the Gulf of Thailand...
...cannot even speak English well enough to express myself. I'm afraid that my cherished reputation, which I built by long years of conscientious work in the army, may be ruined in politics." To forfend any such disaster, Premier Thanom shrewdly asked Thailand's wise and respected Prince Wan Waithayakon and two other distinguished Thai statesmen and scholars to serve as Vice Premiers...
...jungles and surrendered. Encouraged, Rahman extended the amnesty deadline until next April 30, showered 12 million safe-conduct passes into the forests. But he had less success with Chin Peng, 36, Chinese-educated leader of the guerrillas. From his jungle lair across the border in neighboring Thailand, Chin Peng sent word that he would be willing to meet Rahman only to discuss "an end to the war," not a surrender. Snapped the Tengku last week: "Unless and until Chin Peng is willing to surrender, there will be no meeting...
Increasingly confident that he can reduce the rebels to impotency and end Malaya's state of emergency before the state's first anniversary next summer, Prime Minister Rahman considered staging a series of "little armistice" talks in individual rebel villages, prepared to ask Thailand for combined operations against Chin Peng...
...Thailand. Elections ordered by the new strongman, Marshal Sarit, were completed last week. Fellow travelers are reeling backward, deprived of the support of Pibulsonggram, whom Sarit ousted in last September's coup. Rice is cheap and plentiful. Sarit and all major parties back Thailand's past SEATO commitments, and prospects are that the country will continue prosperous and stable...