Word: asia
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Because Lyndon Johnson has argued more persuasively than any of his predecessors that the U.S. is a Pacific as well as an Atlantic power, it seems appropriate that his 17-day, six-nation tour of Asia will be the most extensive ever undertaken by an American President. Departing next week, Johnson will cover 25,000 miles, enough to girdle the globe, with stops in New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea. Though he said last week that "no consideration has been given" to a Viet Nam visit, he will probably make a quick side trip...
Instantly, dove hearts fluttered and dove tongues stuttered with the awesome implications: Russia and France were ready to cooperate and bring about a negotiated peace in Southeast Asia. . . the machinery is in motion. . . if only Washington would...
...burdened man before." In the U.S. in particular, things were in parlous shape. The Government, Krock complained, was endorsing "an evangelistic concept of world stewardship"; it had "discarded the most fundamental teaching of the foremost American military analysts by assuming the burden of a ground war between Asians in Asia." At home, the Constitution was being eroded by "the swollen powers of the President" and the "judge-made legislation" of the Supreme Court. The Great Society had become "both kith and kin" to the total welfare state...
Asphalt barriers, say the M.S.U. men, can double the acreage of rice fields in the food-short countries of Southeast Asia. Used with the new Rockefeller Foundation strain of rice, they might free much of the world from the specter of famine...
MRDC men are also hard at work devising new techniques for transmitting radio signals in Southeast Asia, where both the dense, humid forests and the magnetic equatorial belt severely limit both range and reliability. Radio engineers have already made tests to determine the type of antenna that will operate most efficiently under these conditions and are scattering very high-frequency radio waves over the forest canopy to distant field receivers...