Word: wongwan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then, as Thailand discovered last week, the result can be embarrassment and uncertainty. The designee is Narong Wongwan, 66, a lumber and tobacco millionaire whose pro-military Justice and Unity Party won the most seats in Thailand's first parliamentary elections since a bloodless coup 13 months ago. Soon after Narong was named to head a five-party coalition government, Washington officials disclosed that he had been denied a visa to enter the U.S. last July because of alleged links to Thailand's opium and heroin trade...
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