Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Career Girl Carol Laise, 48, is outward bound. L.B.J. tapped her last week to be U.S. Ambassador to Nepal. And it wasn't a political sop either. Carol has spent eleven years in the Foreign Service and is one of the State Department's top Asia experts. More than that, she's made four trips to the remote, Himalayan-crowned kingdom. Which makes just about everybody happy: the Nepalese because they get a plenipotentiary who knows their problems, and Carol because, as she said, "I won't have to do my own cooking any more...
...government lawyers from Latin America, Asia, and Africa arrived in Cambridge over the weekend to participate in what is probably the first intensive study-institute for lawyers from developing nations...
...PAGE hitchhiked into Southeast Asia, worked at odd jobs, from giving drawing lessons to teaching English, turned into one of the best photographers covering the Viet Nam war, and last week became the first allied correspondent to be wounded on three separate occasions and live to tell the tale. See PRESS...
Tanker Base. Part of a $75 million, U.S.-financed project near the Thai port of Sattahip, the new airfield features an 11,500-ft. runway, the longest and strongest in Southeast Asia. The facility will be home base for 30 giant KC-135 tankers. These circle in the vicinity of North Viet Nam to refuel the U.S. Air Force jets that fly more than 60% of all American raids over the North and Laos from four other Thai bases. Also to be stationed at U-Tapao are a troop carrier wing and an air transport unit, for funneling American...
Halperin was joined on "Brattle Street Forum" by Eara F. Vogel, associate of the East Asia Research Center. Dr. Jerome Cohen, Professor of Law; and Dwight Perkins, assistant profesosr of Economics. All are from Harvard...