Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane came in at treetop level, then bounced into a 700-ft. clearing. Eager tribeswomen in turbans and blue-striped frocks rushed toward the visitors, smiling through betel-stained teeth. Their menfolk set about happily unloading medicine, food, seed and other supplies. "This is the one place in Southeast Asia," the pilot beamed, "where we're a little ahead of the Communists...
...countries to start reshaping their pride-twisted economies. It has upset old notions of geopolitics. Most dramatic of all, it has virtually eaten up the perennial overproduction of U.S. agriculture, whose bounty now feeds one out of every 20 persons in Africa, Latin America and non-Communist Asia. The State Department last week told U.S. embassies to discourage requests for wheat because the nation must cut back such aid shipments by 25% this year...
...Aiken remarked that South Vietnam could not do a very good job of defending itself, and Rendell objected aloud. Rendell, a Briton who has spent a few years in Vietnam, told the audience from his seat behind the lectern that South Vietnam has the second strongest army in Southeast Asia...
Another major target is Cornell, which has both a Southeast Asia and a China study program. "We want to bring as many Southeast Asia experts into ARFEP as possible," said Owen de Long, graduate student in Government, and summer co-chairman of ARFEP...
...Asia hope that a new form of Democracy will emerge from the blending of ideologies," Sivasihtamparam said. Democracy in Asia must include a new concept of property rights, must provide dynamic economic systems, and must maintain the rights of the individual, he said...