Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Currently, 150 choice pieces from King Gustaf's collection are touring the U.S., and last week went on exhibition in New York's Asia House Gallery. Typical of his sharp-eyed acquisitiveness are his ceramic brace of Northern Wei young women. Dating from around A.D. 500, they stand only 6¾-in. high and represent dancers ready to perform in a nobleman's house. The piece was never meant to be seen by living eyes; like funeral objects found in Egyptian tombs, the sculpture was placed in the elegant grave of a dead princeling as a token...
...that such nighttime illumination would be useful in search-and-rescue work, in spacecraft-recovery operations and in lengthening short winter days at high latitudes. But its spokesmen have carefully avoided discussing another obvious application: military use in Viet Nam. A single mirror satellite in synchronous orbit over Southeast Asia could cast light on an area stretching from Saigon all the way to Pointe de Camau, at the southern tip of Viet Nam, thus depriving guerrillas of the protection of darkness...
Thursday, January 5 LAOS: THE FORGOTTEN WAR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The second of three shows called "The Battle for Asia," this one documents the war in Laos and the life of the Meo tribesmen, who are doing most of the fighting against the Communists...
...settlement, the nature and attainability of our objectives in Viet Nam raise serious new doubts. There is thus increasing confusion about both our basic purpose and our tactics, and there is increasing fear that the course now being pursued may lead us irrevocably into a major land war in Asia-a war which many feel could not be won without recourse to nuclear weapons, if then...
Sato can also draw hope from his past record. Despite the black mist, he has improved relations with South Korea, promoted aid to the undeveloped nations of Southeast Asia and given new stability to his country's vigorous economy, which is growing 8% a year...