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...Nguyen Thai, former director of the Vietnam Press Bureau at Saigon, has studied in America before. He has an M.A. from Cornell and was working on a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan this year...
What is important about the Jungle of Love, a craggy mountain region on the ill-defined Thai-Cambodian border, is that it houses an 800-year-old Hindu temple. Called Phra Viharn by Thais and Preah Vihear by Cambodians, it lies in ruins at the end of a long, rutted road deep in the jungle. Because past treaties involving the area are vague, the two countries have long and passionately disputed ownership (although both are predominantly Buddhist). Finally, in 1959, Cambodia asked the International Court of Justice in The Hague to render a judgment...
...wrong, Thailand replied hotly, pointing out that the temple would never even have been found but for the explorations of Thai Prince Sanphasit in 1899. What is more, argued the Thais, the temple faces north; Cambodians have to use the back door, whereas Thai pilgrims use the stairs that rise to the front entrance...
...When Prince Sihanouk heard the good news, he announced that he would shave his head and maintain a thanksgiving vigil for seven days and nights. But Thailand's Marshal Sarit summoned his military commanders, ordered reinforcements to the area of the temple, which at the moment is under Thai control. Thailand even ordered its diplomats to boycott the meetings of SEATO...
Died. Somdej Pra Ariyawongsakhatayana (means Nobly descended and accomplished in intelligence), 74, Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, spiritual leader of 25 million Thai Buddhists, who in 1961 became the first Patriarch to visit the U.S.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bangkok...