Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...communique-Point 29-pledging an allied troop withdrawal six months after "the other side" withdrew its forces, infiltration was ended and the level of violence had subsided. The point was designed to allay fears in other capitals that the U.S. has no intention of pulling out of Southeast Asia. Even more, it was designed to answer those statesmen-most notably France's Charles de Gaulle and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko-who have urged the U.S. to offer a specific timetable for withdrawal of its forces from Viet Nam as a possible prelude to negotiations. When Gromyko talked with...
Under the Canopy. In the long view, the conference is likely to have less impact on what happens in Viet Nam than in the whole of Asia. Johnson's constant refrain was Asia's growing sense of regional pride. "It's like what Baltimore got from winning the World Series," he said at one point. While that must have baffled any Asian leaders who heard it, they were clearly gratified by his pledge that the U.S. was committed to help the area not as a dominant power but as a partner within a new comity of nations...
...Australian official, without resentment, "It was the U.S. all the way, from impregnation to gestation to delivery." Thanks largely to the protective canopy of U.S. power, the nations of the region enjoy the freedom to develop their own way. The value of that canopy was not lost on Asia's nations last week when Red China reported that it had launched a nuclear missile and may soon be capable of striking every nation on Asia's rim from Korea to Pakistan (see THE WORLD). As the Economist editorialized at week...
...Whatever the verdict history eventually passes on Mr. Johnson's policy in Viet Nam, he has shown that the United States is as willing to exert its influence in Asia as it is in Europe. The shift of America's weight to its Pacific flank is making itself felt...
...seven nations meeting in Manila last week reasserted their desire for peace and their determination to bring the war in Viet Nam to an honorable conclusion. In three separate documents resulting from the conference, the allies also went a long step further. They laid the groundwork for an eventual Asia-wide security grouping under U.S. auspices. They emphasized as well their resolve to achieve a Pacific consensus on the peaceful development of the region's resources...