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Thailand's political crisis took a surreal twist Friday when an anti-government protest leader climbed down a hotel facade with a rope to evade arrest and drove off with two police officers taken hostage by his supporters. ... He had also led the storming of a Southeast Asian summit last year in the beach resort of Pattaya that forced the conference to be canceled. On Friday, with a rope looped around his waist, a visibly nervous Arisman slid down from a third-story ledge ...