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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1977
Page
14
Ten years after Jim Thompson, the flamboyant American known as the Silk King of Thailand, vanished on Easter Sunday March 26 1967 at Cameron Highlands Malaysia. Declared legally dead in 1974, his disappearance sparked global intrigue with theories of defection or kidnapping by rivals and enemies.
A Bangkok silk baron and OSS veteran Thompson vanished in the jungle before his 1st birthday. He had rebuilt Bangkok’s Oriental Hotel and led the Thai Silk Company. Searches by aborigines, Malaysian troops, and U.S. helicopters failed to find him, with rumors ranging from accident to kidnapping.
In New York City, U S and Cuban representatives on a second day of informal talks reported progress as both sides study the others proposals. The State Department said the talks opened Thursday and will meet again next week with eight members on each delegation led by Terence Todman and Vice Foreign Minister Pelegrin Torres.
Margaret Trudeau, wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, will be paid about 200 for a People Magazine photography assignment in New York. The shoot will cover half the pictures for a story, with the rest by another photographer on the West Coast. A magazine spokesman says the work is freelance and unrelated to relocating.
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