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...indicate ..." Martin even took on Lyndon Johnson's Defense Secretary, Robert McNamara, attacking Mc-Namara's plan to slash military aid to Thailand and shift it to Viet Nam. Martin's persistent arguments eventually won Johnson over to his side. Martin subsequently negotiated the use of Thai bases by the U.S. Air Force, now the largest American military presence in Southeast Asia...
Nissen alleges that the fingerprints of Vu Van Thai, former South Vietnam ambassador to the U.S. are on one of the volumes of the Pentagon Papers which belonged to Ellsberg. The official record of Thai's fingerprints are expected to arrive from Saigon on Tuesday, Bennion said...
...tourist. He played a round of golf, sampled Bangkok's famous cuisine, and laid on a sightseeing tour that was mostly followed, as it turned out, by Mrs. Lee. Meanwhile the Singapore delegation, including Lee's Foreign Minister and his intelligence experts, huddled in secret talks with Thai Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn and his assistants. What the Singapore visitors had come to propose was the creation of a new regional defense strategy, by Asians and for Asians...
...Viet Nam cease-fire agreement, Singapore, Thailand and other nations belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (which also includes Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines) would call a meeting to which they would invite both Viet Nams, Cambodia, Laos and Burma. "We want them in the association," says Thai Deputy Foreign Minister Chartichai Choonhawan, "because we want to see work start on reconstructing the damage done...
...told that their demands would not be met, but that they would be given safe conduct out of Thailand if they released the hostages. After an hour of talks, they agreed to these terms and were rewarded with a meal of curried chicken and Scotch whisky supplied by the Thai government. At dawn, they left for Cairo on a special Thai International flight, accompanied by the two ranking Thai negotiators and by Essawi. The Egyptian diplomat, in a rare instance of Arab-Israeli cooperation, had clearly played a key role in saving the hostages' lives. Even rarer...