Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consultant on Asian Communism at the University of Southern California and as a former newspaperman, I compliment TIME for its excellent cover story on Thailand's attempt at peaceful social revolution [May 27]. In Southeast Asia last summer with a State Department mission, I came to see that there is no substitute for concern-before the guerrillas come. As you show, both the U.S. and Thailand have learned this well...
...group of ten South Vietnamese. Our Saigon bureau chief is Simmons Fentress, formerly of the Washington bureau, and his two top resident correspondents are Donald Neff and William McWhirter. Constantly shuttling in and out of South Viet Nam from Hong Kong are Frank McCulloch, our senior correspondent in Asia, and Reporters Karsten Prager and Arthur Zich...
Giap earned his reputation with victory against the French in 1954, when he became the first modern commander to drive a white European nation out of Asia. Then he was largely unknown, except to his French adversaries, who dismissed him with St.-Cyr-bred contempt as a sometime schoolmaster who had been awarded his general's stars by Communist bush politicians. But Giap's native army defeated his far-better-equipped foe by entrapping a French force of 12,000 in the mountain fortress of Dienbienphu and liquidating it, thus destroying the will of the politicians back...
...rebellious police, and ordered the altars removed. And as the fasting Tri Quang grew so weak that he was admitted to a local military hospital, Ky happily announced that all was well. So well that he might even fly off to South Korea for a meeting of Asia's anti-Communist nations...
Lowell, who has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, has actively opposed this country's intervention in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic. He has organized mass "read-outs" against President Johnson's foreign policy and signed several positions asking for U.S. withdrawal from Southeast Asia...