Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first week of the President's 17-day, six-nation swing through Asia, he seized every opportunity to talk seriously to his audiences abroad and back home as well. He emphasized that his trip, far from being an electioneering gimmick, was undertaken with the compelling purpose of redefining America's role in the Pacific while encouraging Asia's emerging nations toward a new spirit of regional unity and cooperation. Whether or not they can succeed, Johnson repeatedly made clear, is a question that cannot even be asked until the war is ended. Yet at the very beginning...
...soon as Johnson reached Honolulu, White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers, returning from a scouting trip of Asia, reported the unsettling news that many people anticipated spectacular developments at this week's seven-nation conference. Hastily, the President wrote some cautionary lines into his arrival speech. "We do not expect to pull any rabbits out of any hats at Manila," he said. "We know that the greatest weapons in Viet Nam are patience and unity...
...period of history," De Gaulle said, "is that of a world in movement, of a world which disapproves of and is alarmed by the conflict and the escalation conducted in Southeast Asia by foreign intervention, of a world which has no future except in peace." As its piece de resistance, De Gaulle's government signed two more agreements covering an exchange of students and teachers, of ballet, concert and other cultural groups, and technical study teams that will explore, among other things, the peaceful uses of nuclear energy...
Today, well over 1,000 falconers in the Western world still practice the ancient sport, and in parts of Asia and Africa it is still a basic means of gathering food. The eagles are the biggest (up to 15 lbs.) and most powerful birds of prey. A brace of trained golden eagles accounted for 32 foxes and 18 wolves in one recent hunting season in the Soviet Union; even rugged mountain sheep and full-grown deer fall to their claws...
...talent to file more stories. With Kay Graham's backing, he has raided other newspapers and magazines. His catch includes the New York Times's crack Political Reporter David S. Broder and the Saturday Evening Post's Stanley Karnow, whom Bradlee has sent to roam Southeast Asia. Nicholas von Hoffman was brought to town from the Chicago Daily News and now travels from one ghetto to the next to assess the miseries of slum life. Hired from the New Republic, Wolf von Eckardt provides some of the most perceptive daily-newspaper comment on city planning...