Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambodia's ex-King Norodom Sihanouk has long been the most unpredictable political tumbler in Southeast Asia. At the Geneva Conference on Indo-China four years ago, Sihanouk's delegation won Western cheers with its courageous stand against Communist attempts to take Cambodia by negotiation. Later Sihanouk switched to "neutrality," made triumphant tours of Red China and the Soviet Union, at home coupled on-again-off-again praise for the Communists with equally erratic pats and cuffs for the West...
...visiting scholars will apply their learning when they return to their colleges, either by introducing new courses on Asia, or by enriching existing courses with comparisons of Asian cultures. Participants may come from varied fields, including the social sciences and such parts of the humanities as literature, philosophy, and art history...
...will use part of its half of the grant for a new program of fellowships under the Center for East Asian Studies. Each year, five to eight college teachers will come to the University for supplementary courses in this field. They will prepare either to introduce new courses on Asia into their college's curriculum, or to enrich existing courses with comparative content about Far Eastern cultures...
...fact, Nasser had with his own hand struck a grievous blow at his prospects of achieving leadership of Afro-Asia's restive peoples. For by giving Egyptian backing to the permanent Afro-Asian Council, he had in effect gone into partnership with Russia in a campaign to undermine Western influence in Africa. And in a partnership between Egypt and Russia, even self-confident Gamal Abdel Nasser could scarcely doubt which partner would call the tune...
Assignment Southeast Asia: NBC spent three months and $125,000 shooting a color documentary on the seven-nation region that arcs from Laos to Indonesia, then let the film gather dust for a year. Last week viewers could see the results-and understand why nobody bothered to rush the go-minute show to the screen. Southeast Asia offered some striking individual shots, such as a closeup of an opium smoker, and picturesque views of Thai boxers, golden Burmese temples and the stone splendor of Cambodia's Angkor Wat. But in trying to do too much-a travelogue plus...