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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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