Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, thin southern flank and imposing its stable strength on Middle Eastern foment. There, riding at anchor in the soft swell of Okinawa's Buckner Bay, is Vice Admiral Stuart Ingersoll's Seventh Fleet, ready to turn its carrier-keyed task force toward the first break in Asia's ominous calm (a calm that might well not exist were it not for the Seventh Fleet's presence). There, in drydock for routine overhaul at Norfolk's huge (35 admirals on duty) Navy complex, is the 60,000-ton carrier Forrestal, most powerful ship afloat, preparing...
Throughout the villages and cities of Southeast Asia, millions are preparing this week for a celebration that will be a landmark in their lives - the 2,500th anniversary of the death of the Buddha, founder of a religion followed by perhaps a fifth of the world's population...
...shortage of young doctors in the U.S. is so acute that Congress should set up a commission to probe "all phases of medical education," Dr. Dominick F. Maurillo of Brooklyn told the New York State Medical Society. Main symptoms of the shortage: hospitals are scouring Europe and Asia to fill staff gaps left by a deficit of 7,000 interns...
...country like Iran would have to allow the return of those American oil companies which it previously expelled. The committee halved the $40 million the President desired as his discretionary fund for expenditure on a single country. It also cut the allotment for aid to the Middle East and Asia by $100 million...
...underdeveloped countries in the Middle East or North Africa. But even before the conference opened. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd rejected the idea of NATO aid in the Middle or Far East, pointing to the Baghdad Pact as a better instrument in the Middle East, the Colombo Plan in Asia. And the French stiffly declared that they were quite capable of supplying all the economic aid North Africa needs and wanted no help from their allies...