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...them lack the skills deemed essential for resettlement elsewhere, they have come to be known in official jargon as "residuals," or people with "no guarantee of movement onward." The worst of these refugee camps is NW 82, a tropical purgatory 16 miles north of Aranyaprathet, a town on the Thai-Cambodian border. United Nations officials are not allowed to have a permanent presence in the heavily guarded enclosure. TIME Bangkok Bureau Chief David DeVoss was the first foreign correspondent permitted by Thai authorities to look inside NW 82. His report...
Long before Anna ever met the King of Siam, the monarchs of Thailand traveled their kingdom in resplendent style. As early as the 17th century, European voyagers recorded that a Thai royal tour through the waters of the old imperial capital, Ayutthaya, involved as many as 450 sumptuous teak barges, elaborately carved and gilded, with prows in the shapes of ornate serpents, birds and deities. Wrote one French envoy who witnessed the spectacle: "The splendor of the decorations, the variety of costume, the crowds of richly dressed spectators, the noise of the oars, and the shouts of the rowers, added...
...ruling Chakri dynasty. No fewer than 51 of the mammoth regal barges were restored, at a cost of $3.5 million, to transport King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 54, ninth of his line, and his entourage along the Chao Phraya River. For months, 2,180 cadets and officers of the Thai navy had worked strenuously to perfect their oarsmanship. Their main worry: the barges are notoriously unstable, and the slightest mistake could have resulted in a regal dunking...
...event was not re-enacted in every detail. In earlier days a prohibition that prevented a commoner from touching a king-even during an emergency-meant that the barges had to carry strings of buoyant coconuts to be used as life preservers in case of an accident. Though no Thai would touch him in normal circumstances today, it is unlikely the King would be allowed to drown, and, after several practice drills down the river, the navy decided that the coconuts would not be needed...
...talks with their Vietnamese hosts. "Let me introduce Lieut. Colonel John Per," Armitage said, turning to a member of his delegation. "He was a guest of yours before for six years, but he stayed in a different hotel from the Thang Loi." Per was shot down over Thai Nguyen, 40 miles north of Hanoi...