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een done.<br />

It would certainly have been possible to have<br />

scheduled the formal luncheon in Washington, D. C., under<br />

such circumstances.<br />

3. The split-city visits mi ht have hon left to the<br />

scheduling contrrctor (in this casr, COM) fI h r than<br />

have<br />

been rigidly specifipd in ndvonco by he Board<br />

f Investment<br />

in Bangkok. CIPM questioned t,he split-city visto a. the<br />

beginning of the scheduling ,:xrcloo and if th . ha I not been<br />

a rigid requirement, the Cloveland and AtlaK.a visiK would<br />

probably never have been schedul -d.<br />

4. The exact date of departur, from the United States<br />

might have been left open so that those Thai who hd "n<br />

opportunity to visit factory sitKw and to negotato jointventure<br />

agreements might not hav'<br />

had to negotinto against a<br />

deadline.<br />

Several Thai investors commnted that their rigid<br />

departure date would make it<br />

impossible to complet, negotiations<br />

with American investors.<br />

5. Minister Pote Sarison, concurrently Chairman of the<br />

Board of Investment, might have ndded significantly to the<br />

creditability of the Thai presentations if he had spent more<br />

time at the A.M.A. Seminar and pofitly with the chcf executives<br />

of some of the major American firms intornst-d in Thni investments.<br />

Note:<br />

A.M.A.<br />

The Minister accompanied the Thai Primp Minister to the<br />

Seminar on May 7, and remained onJy until he had delivered<br />

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