Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alternative to Chiang. The U.S. must support the formation of liberals into a third force, virtually non-existent today, and aid it in taking ever the government. That is the sole possibility. Only then can America demonstrate, through the groups it supports, that it has something better to offer Asia than do the Communists...
Sitting in Buenos Aires' Villa de Voto jail, Labor Leader Cipriano Reyes (rhymes with Asia's) might have been excused for wondering just what had hit him. Most publicized catch in the abortive assassination plot against President Perón (TIME, Oct. 4), he was scheduled for trial next month with eleven other defendants. Meanwhile he was held in solitary; only his wife and daughter could visit his cell...
...talisman, it worked very well. Despite the diversity of our route through the 15 countries we visited, we were off schedule only once. The children turned out to be good travelers, resilient and resourceful, standing patiently through 26 customs examinations in 68 days on our way through southeast Asia and India, across a corner of Africa and into Europe, to Scandinavia, London and, via the Queen Elizabeth, New York...
...chartered an airplane and explored the desolate shore of the Bering Sea north of Bristol Bay. There he found more than 50 characteristic Ipiutak sites: shallow depressions where the earth-covered wooden dugouts had collapsed into the ground. The ruins were certainly made by the Ipiutaks-Eskimos fresh from Asia and still retaining many Asiatic ways...
...they moved farther away, in both time and space, from their Asiatic homeland, the Ipiutaks shed their Asiatic culture. But Larsen hopes to prove that before the light from Asia died out, some sparks of it passed down the coast by "cultural diffusion," and affected races far to the south. Thus, he may establish one of the few, perhaps the only, cultural contact of pre-Columbian days between the Old World...