Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United States has waged a brutal and pointless war against the land and people of Vietnam, killing hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and Americans and supporting a series of repressive military governments. Now, it appears, the nightmare is beginning again in Laos and Thailand. The killing in Southeast Asia must be stopped...
...Larson Hall for elementary and secondary school teachers and student teachers in the Boston area to help them prepare classes about Vietnam for October 15. A videotape of classrooms using the Vietnam curriculum will be shown, and James C. Thomson, assistant professor of History, will lecture on East Asia. Ed School students will canvass on October 15 in Charlestown and East Boston with the law students...
Only Latin America fell behind seriously last year; drought caused a drop of 2% in food output, while population increased by 2%. Developing countries in Africa increased farm production by 2%, while population went up an estimated 2.5%. By contrast, the food-shy developing countries in Asia, where ancient methods of farming are gradually giving way to more efficient cultivation of high-yield strains of rice and wheat, increased their food pro duction by 5% for the second year in a row. The biggest gains were made by Malaysia (11%) and Thailand (8%). In the Western world, the U.S., Canada...
...puritanism and idealism, others because they feel that the Chairman has not gone far enough in his efforts to regenerate the revolution. Indeed, throughout the population, the Cultural Revolution seriously undermined respect for authority. Abroad, China's position is not much better. Peking has lost much face in Asia and Africa. Once the Third World carefully watched the competition between India and China. India still has trouble aplenty, but economic planners no longer seriously consider the "Chinese model." Albania is China's only real friend, and Peking has but a few close acquaintances-Pakistan, Rumania, Syria, Nepal, Tanzania...
...said that the Center has tentatively planned several Spring seminars, including "Current Problems of Political and Economic Development in Southeast Asia," and "imperialism and U. S. Foreign Policy...