Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mobilized for at least four months. He also directed that reservists should be kept on active duty only until volunteers and draftees meet manpower requirements. Around the Pentagon, estimates of those requirements went up again last week with reports of the reverses in Korea (see WAR IN ASIA...
World War III? Partial, unadmitted intervention would have some advantages in Chinese eyes. It might serve to protect the great Yalu River power dams (see map) from which Manchuria draws electric power for its factories. It might save face for the Communists in Asia, might prevent the U.N. from creating a stable, anti-Communist nation on China's borders. It would surely profit the U.S.S.R. which would be delighted to see U.S. energies drained by a long Asian...
...title of the book is "Pakistan--the Heart of Asia." The Prime Minister visited the University...
Polk took the research trip through the Middle East, James P. Grant 3L analyzed the situation in South East Asia, Frank Fisher '47 made a study of the Yugoslavian youth problems, and Robert Fischelis '49 directed a German student seminar in Frankfort last summer...
...answer was that the Joint Chiefs had taken a second look at Alaska and this time had seen it through airmen's eyes. To fireside strategists, equipped with an armchair and a globe, the Aleutians might look like neat steppingstones from Asia up to the North American continent's front door, islands to be defended one by one. But the steppingstones had to be seen. The globe, for instance, did not show the masses of empty tundra stretching inland from the western coast like sloshy, moldy pudding. No map could hint the subzero temperatures that could cripple...