Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college senior who considers Viet Nam "so foreign" and "so remote" is confused about the realities of world politics. It is in Southeast Asia that the U.S. is preparing its answer to the Chinese Communist form of aggression. How can a student begrudge Uncle Sam two years of his life after having spent 20 years enjoying all the American freedoms, and with the reasonable expectation of 40 more years of enjoyment after his military obligation is complete? I do not think it unreasonable that the new car, career and family should wait a couple of years. If the draft...
More important, there is good reason for optimism about the state of the world. Despite the French-instigated tremors within NATO, Europe not only is more stable than at any time since World War II but is also full of political movement hinting at political innovations to come. In Asia, nine free countries met at Seoul and formed a loose but friendly association that would have been impossible a year...
...nationalizing steel, for taking too tough an attitude toward the seamen's wage demands in Britain's five-week-old dock strike, and for backing the U.S. in Viet Nam and continuing to maintain Britain's large contingent of troops "east of Suez" in Southeast Asia. A broad middle-of-the-road band of M.P.s chimed in, too, complaining that Wilson had hardly provided the "firm and purposive government" that he had promised. And there was general worry over the continuing weakness of the pound, which has had to be rescued by the world's bankers...
...rebels took organized aim at their leader with a party motion condemning Wilson's decision to maintain Britain's east-of-Suez defense commitments. The issue was carefully chosen, since it enlisted the support of both left and right. The left wing wanted Britain out of Asia on ban-the-bomb grounds; the right wing wanted much the same in order to save money better spent at home...
...Crusaders, variously estimated at 70,000 to 600,000 strong, poured into Asia Minor, took the quarreling Turkish sultans by surprise, defeated them, and then captured Antioch, the city of 400 towers, by assault. Besieged in Antioch by a superior army of the atabeg of Mosul, the Crusaders were saved by a miracle of their own faith. Fired by the conviction that an old, rusty piece of iron unearthed beneath an Antioch church was the lance with which the Roman soldier had pierced the side of the crucified Christ, the Crusaders, half-starved and crazed with religious fanaticism, swept...