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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In all of these censorious activities the West tends to get blamed for what it introduced and what it did not. How long the reforming move will last in Southeast Asia, no one knows. But if Hula-Hoops and B-girls are easily legislated against, wiping out opium will come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: The Puritan Crusade | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

The temper of a country is often found in its wit. In Djakarta, the capital of the island nation of Indonesia, a government official last week whispered the latest crack: "Anyone who is not totally confused is just very badly informed." Another, and more troubling, crack is that what the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Whispers in Djakarta | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Prisoner King. That democracy arrived at all was remarkable, for the 9,000,000 people of Nepal have spent only the last eight years in the 20th century. Before that, the nation was a feudal state governed by the Ranas, a ruthless family of hereditary Prime Ministers who kept the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Democracy Comes at Midnight | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

The arrival of democracy last week in Nepal's capital of Katmandu had a Himalayan flavor all its own. After an endless, crowded tea party on the green lawn of the royal palace, the new Cabinet finally assembled an hour before midnight in a palace hall dimly lit by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Democracy Comes at Midnight | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

In the holocaust that followed, help came quickly and heroically from U.S. servicemen. A marine rushed through a solid wall of flame to rescue a little girl. Others made a firebreak to contain the flames. A thousand servicemen swarmed to the scene, clawed through hot rubble with their bare hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKINAWA: Death from the Sky | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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