Word: tial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thailand promulgated a long-delayed new constitution and took the first, if hesitant, step toward a return to representative government. Like the ceremony itself, the constitution is more show than substance: it does not necessarily mean the end of the military regime or, for that matter, even of mar tial law, under which Thailand has been ruled for a decade. Only the day before the ceremony, General Praphas Charusathien, 55, strongman of a regime in which he holds the posts of Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and army commander, had announced that martial law would remain in force, the new constitution...
...produced some violent outcries. Last week the Prime Minister was grilled mercilessly at a press conference by hostile Indian newsmen who seemed determined to prove that she was, in effect, deserting her father's sacrosanct doctrines. "We have liberalized private investment for some things which we consider essen tial," she snapped. "Mostly to do with the production of food. We are not going to give in on any other point...