Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Malaysia is what South Viet Nam hopes to be a decade from now: a bustling little land that survived twelve vicious years of internal assault by Communist guerrillas and has gone on to achieve one of the highest standards of living in Asia. Until recently, Malaysians could look forward to continued progress. Now a cloud has fallen over their future. The reason is the sudden reduction in Britain's role as Malaysia's longtime financial angel and protector. With the end of the external threat from nearby Indonesia, Britain is withdrawing its 10,000-man military force...
Leftover Terrorists. Malaysia can state a compelling case for assistance. Its location-spreading from the Borneo rain forests across the South China Sea to the pleasant Malay highlands-gives it an importance in the security of Asia. The handsome capital of Kuala Lumpur is alive with new autos, motor bikes and eager shoppers; outside the city, 140 new factories have sprung up, and 50 more are under construction...
Died. Harold Talburt, 71, chief editorial cartoonist of Scripps-Howard Newspapers from 1922 to 1963, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for his "The Light of Asia" (a fist labeled Japan grasping a torch of burning peace treaties), but is best remembered for his "John Q. Public,"a poor soul reduced to wearing a barrel after paying his taxes; of cancer; in Bethesda...
...United States could pull out of Vietnam without precipitating a general collapse in Southeast Asia, Stanley H. Hoffmann, Professor of Government, said last night...
Among other things, Hoffmann attacked the applications of the "dominotheory" to Southeast Asia . Communism is advancing in Southeast Asia by internal subversion, he said, and its success will depend entirely on the internal social, economic, and political situation--not on external events...