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...business, speed is distrusted because it precludes those subtle soundings that make it unnecessary ever to say that devastatingly face-destroying word "no." The Chinese, Thai and Burmese have no word at all for "no"-leaving one to interpret from context, facial expression or some other nuance whether or not "perhaps" is a flat turndown...
...come here to band ourselves against any people or nation," asserted Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman last week to some 80 delegates from Japan, Malaysia, Nationalist China, Australia, New Zealand, South Viet Nam, the Philippines, Thailand and South Korea. Rather, their purpose in gathering in flag-festooned Seoul was, he said, "an alliance for the advancement and prosperity of our peoples...
...bourgeois landowning family that had fallen into penury. By the time he was 14, he was a member of a clandestine, anti-French sect; four years later the French clapped him in jail for political agitation. It proved a fortuitous incarceration. Behind bars he met Fellow Militant Minh Thai, who became his first wife. And the French police commissure for Vinh took a liking to the brilliant, angry young Giap, got him out of prison, and sent him off to one of the best French schools in Indo-China. He won his baccalaureate, and for four years taught history...
...Vital Core. For the Thais, proud and sensitive to any hint of interference by farangs or foreigners in their national life, the enormous U.S. buildup is a painful concession to the grim facts of Southeast Asian life. They talk about it as little as they can, admit virtually nothing officially, and have carefully made only gentleman's agreements, one at a time, for U.S. use of their bases. The U.S. in turn respects Thai feelings by trying, as one official puts it, to present a "low silhouette" on the Thai landscape. But inevitably, with the growing accumulation of American...
...reason for Thai-American cooperation was explained to his subjects by King Bhumibol himself in his New Year's message. "The opposite side has revealed its intention that Thailand is to be the next target of aggression. A very great danger might reach us any day. None of you must be put off your guard...