21.   GE was working hard to sell jet engines to the Thai government, and its top competitor was Rolls Royce of Britain.

22.   He said the Thai government is finalizing terms of an assistance package from the International Monetary Fund and has explained the details to Japan.

23.   IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus said the Fund warned Thai government officials over and over that economic reforms were necessary.

24.   In the end, the Thai government spent itself almost into bankruptcy defending its currency, the baht, against a concerted attack by speculators.

25.   In Thailand, Rominger is scheduled to speak at the Asian Grain Markets Conference in Bangkok and then meet with Thai government trade officials.

26.   Inthaiwong said her office is acting as a liaison between Porsche and Thai government officials.

27.   Moreover, the Thai government has run a budget surplus for each of the past eight years.

28.   New Thai governments have a history of renegotiating, reallocating or simply canceling public works contracts handed out by the previous Thai government.

29.   Now, for the moment at least, the Thai government is cracking down.

30.   On Monday, the Thai government formally decided to seek International Monetary Fund assistance, underscoring the severity of its troubles and of its inability to contain them.