Like Arnold Schwarzenegger battling the indestructible, shape-shifting cyborg in "Terminator 2", the generals who staged Thailand's coup in September 2006 keep blasting at Thaksin Shinawatra's party, Thai Rak Thai (trt), only to see it recoa-lesce and keep chasing them. The party regrouped after the coup, despite the generals' hopes that it would crumble on losing power. Then, in May, a tribunal created by the junta ordered trt's dissolution, barring Mr Thaksin and 110 other party officials from politics. However, it has simply morphed into a new group, the People's Power Party (ppp), with the same popular policies but a new front-man, Samak Sun-daravej, a ferocious right-winger.
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