LEADER OF THAILAND ASKS VALLEY CROWD TO HELP HIS COUNTRY.Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai Chuan Leekpai (born July 28, 1938, Muang district, Trang province, Thai.) Prime minister of Thailand (1992–95, 1997–2001). Son of a schoolteacher, he became a lawyer and was first elected a member of Parliament in 1969. visited a North Hollywood Buddhist temple Sunday, urging locals to buy bonds to help bolster This article is about the pillow called a bolster. For other meanings of the word "bolster", see bolster (disambiguation). A bolster (etymology: Middle English, derived from Old English, and before that the Germanic word bulgstraz Thailand's troubled economy. He likened the collapse of the nation's economy last summer to an erupting e·rupt v. e·rupt·ed, e·rupt·ing, e·rupts v.intr. 1. To emerge violently from restraint or limits; explode: My neighbor erupted in anger over the noise. 2. volcano volcano, vents or fissures in the earth's crust through which gases, molten rock, or lava, and solid fragments are discharged. Their study is called volcanology. , saying that now the ash is falling. ``We are going to beat this,'' he said to a crowd of approximately 500 at the Thai Buddhist Temple, 12909 Cantara St. The temple had set up tables for locals to buy airline tickets to Thailand to help boost tourism and to provide information about how to invest in the country. Chuan told the group that the goal is to keep manufacturing going and to keep people employed regardless of whether Thailand companies are able to make a profit. He thanked President Clinton for a $1.7 billion aid package for Thailand which was announced during Leekpai's trip to Washington, D.C., Friday. Chuan came to power in November shortly after the economic downswing down·swing n. 1. A swing downward, as of a golf club. 2. A decline, as of a business. Noun 1. downswing - a swing downward of a golf club , which followed years of annual growth of 7 percent or more. ``He sounds like FDR,'' said San Pennson, a Hollywood resident. ``Like we're going to start a `new deal.' '' Supachai Treebumrung, a Glendale resident who works for Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County as a community health worker, said government officials sold $100,000 in bonds at the event. ``The people here understand the crisis,'' he said. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai of Thailand speaks in North Hollywood. Gus Ruelas/Daily News |
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