Word: thanom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Buddha, Palladium of the Kingdom, had been dressed in his summer costume of emerald-encrusted gold filigree-a ritual uninterrupted by political tension following the recent death of Strongman Sarit Thanarat. Though a scandal involving Sarit's finances has been tossed into the lap of his successor, General Thanom Kittakachorn, and in the north a pocket of pro-Red outlaws persists, anti-Communist Thailand is still the stablest country in the neighborhood. But it would -have a hard time holding up amid the other falling dominoes...
...stories have embarrassed the government of Sarit's successor and old crony, General Thanom Kittakachorn, who appointed a five-man committee to investigate the charges. Critics claim that Sarit siphoned $12 million out of the earnings of the national lottery and channeled it into pseudonymous bank accounts. No one denies that the money disappeared, but there is no evidence so far that Sarit used the bulk of the funds for himself. His "unorthodox way of handling finances," say his defenders, was caused by the fact that the slow National Assembly often delayed budgetary requests; as a result Sarit used...