Word: thanarat
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...become a hot item abroad, however, and at least tolerated at home, it hasn't always been thus. In 1961, the then?Prime Minister, General Sarit Thanarat, ordered a complete ban on the pint-sized three-wheelers to take effect four years hence. He claimed they were a noisy, dangerous menace; however, he died in 1963, before the ban could be implemented, and his successor, in the face of strident protests from drivers and owners, decided Bangkok could live with the tuk tuk after...