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Anand Panyarachun named PM

Thai junta making a dictatorial constitution
BANGKOK. Mar 3 : The new military Junta is cementing Its grip on the country with an interim constitution that sanctions its absolute powers and makes it dominant in a caretaker government before elections. analysts say. reports AP.
The document was promulgated Friday to replace the 1978 constitution the Junta abolished after toppling Prime Minister Chatichat Choonha-van s elected government in a bkxrdless coup February 23.
The interim constitution says the election should be this year, but can be delayed for up to 120 days into 1992 if a permanent constitution Is not drafted in time.
A week after the coup, reports Saturday said the Junta was backing off from previous statements it would quickly lift martial law and hold elections within six months.
The Thal newspaper The Nation quoted the Junta leader, armed forces chief Gen. Sun-thom Kongsompong. as saying an "underground movement* was trying to topple the junta and had hired foreign assassins. He could not give details, and a deputy Junta leader said he didn't know anything about It.
"Wc will lift martial law only when the underground move mcnl is stopped." Sunthorn sakl
Martial law includes a ban on a political gatherings of more than five people. Fifteen university students who violated the ban with an antt-coup rally Monday were arrested, each faces up to six months in Jail.
The interim constitution, which the constitutional monarch King Bhumibol Adulyadej approved Friday, replaced a 1978 document the junta abolished.
The junta has said a caretaker cabinet, to be announced within days, would be largely civilian. But the Bangkok Ifost newspaper on Saturday said junta leaders would get the key Interior, defence and communications posts.
Article 27 of the interim constitution gives the jiinla unlimited powers to halt activities deemed harmful to na tional security, the national economy, the administration, public order and morality, national resources or public health.
"This constitution shows the military has no Intention of restoring true democracy." said a Western diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The document says the junta formulates national policy with the cabinet. In joint meetings of the Junta and the cabinet, the junta leader will be chairman.
The king appoints the Prime Minister upon the junta's recommendation, and
^can fire him if the junta recommends.
Another report says : Anand I’anyarchun. named Prime Minister of Thailand's Interim government Saturday, was a diplomat for a quarter-century and served as ambassador to the United States and the United Nations.
As a director-general al the Foreign Ministry in 1976. Anand reportedly was inslru mental In negotiating an end to the American use of miliary buses in Thailand and in Thailand's re-establishing dlplo malic relations with China.
After leaving the government in 1979. Anand em burked on a successful business career In the textile In duslry banking and real estate and sat on many advisory b«. I rds and committees.