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  1. King of Thailand from 1946. Born in the
  2. USA and educated in Bangkok and Switzerland,
  3. he succeeded to the throne on the
  4. assassination of his brother. In 1973
  5. he was active, with popular support, in
  6. overthrowing the military government of
  7. Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn and thus ended a
  8. sequence of army-dominated regimes in power
  9. from 1932.
  10.