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The Leader of Group No. II, to Detroit, was Mr. Vari (7);
the American escort was Jack Bailhe.
The USIA had arranged for
motion pictures to be taken at the Chrysler Plant on May 3 during
that visit.
Group III to Pittsburgh was headed by Dr. Amnuay (12) and
Walter Coppinger of AID/W accompiniod h1im.
Jack Bailhe also went
to Pittsburgh for the last day. The clim-rx at Pittsburgh was
the meeting arranged under the ILI,-c,[-
of the World Affairs
Council of Pittsburgh of which formor' Ambassador to Thailand,
Max Bishop, is the Executive Director. Both Thai and American
participants of Group III were
end ale,',-,enthusiastic about
the Pittsburgh visit.
Group IV led by Major Genriral Pj'nmimrn (37) was originally
scheduled for fou' members,
Me.:rs. Mcntri, Kiarti, Banasomboon
and Pram .a n. The tei,m was tehe.71e Is ,roceed to Cleveland
on May 1 and to meet with Cleveland World Trade Association on
May 2. Without informing onyiii r . . m mbcrs, Messrs. Montri
(16) and Banasomboon (2/4) da-cidel- 1,)! .o go. Two members,
Messrs. Kia-rti (17) and Priamarn (i ,ire met at the Cleveland
Airport by Goodyear Compny and ttke n -,o Akron.
This arrangement
apparently had been made before they left Bangkok, but they failed
to advise CiPM or Paul Sithi--Amnuti or anyone else of these personal
arrangements. As a consequence, the Cleveland World Trade
Associa ion had a luncheon in honor of' the Thai, attended by
local business leaders, but riot, 3 s:1ngle Thai showed up.
The
Cleveland visit, in the same imanno.i' i all of the other group
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