Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast land and island mass of Asia, the newly independent nations have been beset by inefficiency, corruption and tired blood in their leadership. The rise of nationalism and the retreat of colonialism give Communism a great opportunity, which it tirelessly exploits...
...Southeast Asia, where these portents seemed especially clear, armed Communist insurrections in recent years were narrowly put down in Malaya, Indonesia, Burma and the fragmented states carved from French Indo-China...
What remains there is still chaotic. But last week two of TIME'S correspondents, James Bell and Paul Hurmuses, who have been crossing and recrossing Southeast Asia, found a common thread in many dissimilar situations: Communism, instead of being triumphantly on the march, is on the defensive in Southeast Asia. A country-by-country checklist...
Indonesia. President Sukarno may be an inept administrator but he has a keen ear and eye for the political currents that sweep Southeast Asia. His comment, "Parliamentary democracy doesn't work in this part of the world," has been justified by the events that have sent generally corrupt Parliaments packing from Pakistan to Thailand. But Sukarno's erratic guidance of his island nation of 85 million people has brought it dangerously near bankruptcy and disaster. A right-wing rebellion, sporadic, unmilitant, but persistent, threatens the nation's resources of oil and rubber. Indonesia is even more dangerously...
...Transformation. In the two years since the death of able, hard-driving President Ramon Magsaysay (TIME, March 25, 1957), amiable, luxury-loving Carlos Garcia and his friends have done much to diminish the luster of the Philippines as Asia's democratic showcase. A costly industrialization program, crop failures, fluctuating export prices, corruption and administration ineptitude have caused gold and dollar reserves to sink to a scant $100 million. (The nation's trade deficit last year was $120 million.) While the fat cats of the Garcia administration whoop it up at posh Manila gambling joints, 1,360,000 Filipinos...