Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with this time after all those variations on "I have seen the future, and it works," after each visit to the Communists. Also to be heard from are the ChiCom dreaders, with their dire forebodings about the mighty Red Chinese nation, a dedicated monolith poised to crush all Asia at any provocation...
Chiang is also preparing his government for whatever may come. At a time when Red China is mired in economic troubles along with its seemingly endless series of purges, he and his lieutenants are quietly building Asia's strongest government, its second strongest economy (after Japan) and, despite 17 years of exile, an esprit that somehow continues to embody the tenuous dream of mainland recovery. To improve the government, Chiang recently called for "new policies" and "modernized governmental mechanisms." In an obvious dig at Peking's harangues about "revisionism," he is also pushing a "revision" of the Kuomintang...
...Asia. Already combatting Communist terrorism on its remote northeastern frontier, Thailand announced that it would soon become the sixth fighting ally of the U.S. in Viet Nam.* It has already begun to gather the 1,000-man combat battalion of Royal Thai army volunteers who will enter the Viet Nam fray sometime within the next six months. At the same time, Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman admitted that Thailand has been "allowing U.S. troops to utilize our military installations and facilities...
...reach different conclusions. Even, says Professor Ramsey, if the conflict in South Viet Nam itself were to destroy "more values than there is hope of gaining, one must not forget that there are more values and securities and freedoms" to be reckoned with beyond Viet Nam-in Asia and elsewhere in the world...
...Harvard Glee Club has said that it will go ahead, with plans for an eight nation Southeast Asia tour this summer--despite a $15,000 budget deficit...