Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said Wyoming's Democratic Senator Gale McGee: "I have not noticed that those who oppose our policies in Southeast Asia have been coerced into silence. If anything, the tempo of their vocal exercises has been increased...
...negotiations and eventoal disengagement. The thrust of its criticism would be that the Administration now appears to place higher priority on military victory than on political solution and that our present policy may involve us in a broader war which is certainly not justified by our interests in Southeast Asia. Even if it did not formulate the challenge in this way, it would at least force the Administration to define the country's objectives more clearly and precisely, presenting the American people with an estimate of the long-range costs and possible alternatives...
...must be some limit to your literary critics' worship of ersatz "intellectualism." Your real intellectual recognized the need to oppose the Prussian jack boot in 1914, just as he recognizes today the debt owed by us all to the American fighting man for checking the Red menace in Asia...
Television carried the pontifical Requiem Mass throughout Western Europe, beyond the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia, by satellite to the U.S. and parts of Asia. After the ceremony, German Catholic and Protestant churchmen and the visiting dignitaries followed the coffin the 385 yards from the cathedral to the Rhine, where it was placed aboard a German navy patrol boat for a 20-mile trip upstream to Adenauer's village of Rhondorf. There, in a private hillside cemetery, his body was lowered into a grave alongside the flower-decked ones of his two wives and infant...
...There is nothing dishonorable in itself in trying to shore up a non-Communist part of Asia," Hoffman said...