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- THE WEEK, Page 27WORLDEt Cetera
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- ONE MORE TIME
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- In a delicate move, Thailand's King last week tiptoed past a
- military-backed contender and, after consultations with
- political leaders, appointed Anand Panyarachun, 59, a former
- diplomat and businessman, to be interim Prime Minister for the
- second time. Initially installed by the military following a
- February 1991 coup, Anand ran Thailand's most honest and
- competent government in decades before stepping down last March.
- His sensitive task now: to organize new elections and extricate
- the military from politics in response to last month's bloody
- pro-democracy street clashes.
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