Word: thammasat
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...fact the Thai language uses the idiom "to play at politics" rather than "to go into politics." Thus even Sanya Dhamasakti, the popular civilian who has been temporary Prime Minister for the past three months, wants to return quickly to his job as rector of Bangkok's Thammasat University...
...Premier's vacant seat when a revolt of Thai students (TIME, Oct. 29) prompted King Bhumibol Adulyadej to oust and exile General Thanom Kittikachorn, General Praphas Charusathiara and Colonel Narong Kittikachorn-the unpopular military trio that had ruled Thailand. Like most of his countrymen, Sanya, formerly rector of Thammasat University, has only gradually recovered from the shock of that brief revolution, which saw scores of Thai students gunned down in the streets of Bangkok by government security forces...
...government's surprise, the students fought back. They flocked into Bangkok from all over Thailand. Huge protest rallies were held at the capital's prestigious Thammasat University demanding release of the prisoners and immediate adoption of a new constitution. To placate the students, the government began to backpedal on the constitution, announcing that a new one would be drawn up in three years, then 20 months, and finally, twelve months. The prisoners were ordered released on bail, but refused to leave until the constitutional issue was settled. They had to be evicted bodily from jail...
...flashed through the crowd that Prime Minister Thanom had offered his resignation to King Bhumibol Adulyadej. On Thai television a little more than an hour later, the nation watched a tired but composed King announce that the government had resigned. Sanya Dharmaskti, 66, the scholarly, British-educated rector of Thammasat University, was named Prime Minister of a caretaker government...
...decorations, keeps his birth date a secret in order to thwart the Thai custom of showering public figures with presents, and tends zealously to his three jobs-at the bank, as director of fiscal policy for Thailand's Finance Ministry and as dean of the economics faculty at Thammasat University. Last month Puey quietly put together a formal alliance of central-bank governors from Ceylon, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines and South Viet Nam to plan regional economic projects, push for lower tariffs and pooled transport facilities...