Word: thanom
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...abroad undergoing treatment for a chronic liver ailment in Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, and then in Britain. Back home, his Chart Sang-khom Party seemed safely in control of two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly, after an election he had decreed; his own man, General Thanom Kittikachorn, was Premier; young King Phumiphon was carefully holding himself above politics and giving no encouragement to the opposition. When a Soviet attaché and a Tass newsman spoke slightingly of Sarit this month, the government reacted sharply by kicking both out of the country...
...national elections, in which most of his own candidates won in a walkaway. Strongman Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat has been casting around for a suitable Premier. Last week, between bouts with a chronically bad liver, Marshal Sarit named his man: stocky, mild-mannered, 46-year-old Lieut. General Thanom Kittikhachorn (whose polysyllabic last name means "widespreadreputation...
...General Thanom, a longtime crony of Sarit's and assistant commander in chief (under Sarit) of the army, was diffident about taking up his new post. Said the new Premier: "I'm unprepared to take up the premiership, but cannot refuse because it is a call to duty. Besides, this appointment demands someone well versed in foreign affairs, and I'm not. I cannot even speak English well enough to express myself. I'm afraid that my cherished reputation, which I built by long years of conscientious work in the army, may be ruined in politics...