Word: thanat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whenever it starts feeling lonely in Southeast Asia, the U.S. can always take heart in at least one staunch, cheerleading, on-the-field friend. That friend is Thailand, and visiting the U.S. last week was one of the Thais' brainiest and most articulate spokesmen, Thanat Khoman, 51, onetime Ambassador to the U.S. and to the United Nations, now his country's able Foreign Minister...
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). The guest is Thailand Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman...
...confer privately even with each other. Although Sukarno got off three rip-roaring attacks on imperialists and their "nonaligned" lackeys, he denied the platform to all but seven of his guests-and then ordered the suppression of an Algerian speech defending the U.N. Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman flew home early and a bored Egyptian diplomat shrugged, "This Bandung thing is only to appease Sukarno's immense...
Subversion, Communist variety, was also taken up by Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn. "Those who talk about U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam," said he, "are those who do not share the responsibility." A stirring appeal for U.S. commitment in Asia came from Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, who said: "We in Thailand have no place to retreat to, so we will make our first stand and our last stand here." But he was optimistic: "If we draw up a balance sheet of our strengths and weaknesses and those of our antagonists, we would find it very much in our favor...
...Arab nations accused each other of aggression. Greece accused Turkey of "inhuman conduct" in Cyprus. Laos accused North Viet Nam of armed intervention. Thailand accused Cambodia of "connivance with certain aggressive forces," urged the U.N. to pay more attention to "the problems of regional peace." Said Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman in one of the session's calmest speeches: "We have to live with these problems day and night, and have to devote every ounce of our energy and attention to them, for they have to do with our future life as free men and women, as well...