Causes and consequences of the October '76 coup

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• In an interview with Peagam Rumbling from the Right Far Eastern Economic Review July 1976 25 General Wallop stated “that he and about fifteen friends, alarmed at the political unrest in Thailand and the deteriorating situation in Indochina, decided to set up a sort of a ‘national ideology’ emphasizing security of the nation, religion and the monarchy”.
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• The Prachachart 1976 March a Bangkok weekly 18 and March 25, 1976, listed 60, with biographical details.
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