Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five of the yearly number of 15 Fellows come from the United States. The rest come from Europe. Latin America. Asia, and Africa. Bowie said that countries that have participated in the Fellows program before are usually responsible for picking the Fellows. Nye explained, however, that this is not always the case. There was once a radical who was in exile from his government who served as a Fellow. "That was in Dahomey...
...could have held Soviet Russia together in the chaos that followed World War I. Franklin Roosevelt may not have been the only American who could have rallied the U.S. in 1933, but it is certain that Herbert Hoover could not have done it. The history of Southeast Asia would be vastly different if South Viet Nam had had a leader like the North's Ho Chi Minh...
...that it is sometimes known as "Stalin's Revenge." There was also dry shrimp with sweet champagne, sea kale and vegetables in tomato sauce and seven other tinned seafoods-but no bread or crackers to go with them. The Soviet sales luncheon has become increasingly familiar in Southeast Asia, where the Russians are pressing an economic offensive. This week they will wind up their most ambitious effort, a three-week trade fair in Kuala Lumpur. Elsewhere, the Russians have recently formed a joint shipping company with businessmen in Singapore, made trade overtures to the Philippines, welcomed a Thai trade...
Price Yes, Quality No. Southeast Asia presents a target of opportunity to the Russians, a chance to increase their influence as the British and U.S. military presence recedes. The Soviet drive also stems from Leonid Brezhnev's call last June for a new Asian security arrangement aimed against the Chinese, and from Russia's pressing need to overcome a serious trade deficit with some Southeast Asian countries. Trouble is, the Southeast Asian market is highly competitive and tough to crack-and Moscow is accustomed to government-to-government deals. When forced to compete on the open market, Ivan...
...undergraduate. Perhaps partly as a result, he did not hesitate to go to the top with his complaints. He also took it upon himself to advise the young President not only on Indian affairs but about Berlin and Viet Nam too, sounding early warnings against military intervention in Southeast Asia. Counseling and criticizing, he variously complained that "money serves as a substitute for intelligence" in American foreign policy and that complex issues are too often reduced to simple-minded win-or-lose terms. As a gadfly, he kept pointing out, too, that it is almost as important to know what...