Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What is wrong with these young people? If young men their age weren't dying in Asia, these college boys' children and grandchildren might end up spending their time conducting self-criticism sessions in a commune rather than dreaming up ways to beat the draft. I had a privileged education-Choate '53 and Yale '57, but the greatest privilege I've had was 3½ years as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army. I'll serve again if need...
...konfrontasi with Malaysia was over. It had taken the Deputy Premiers of the two Moslem nations only three glowing days together to resolve most of their differences, agree on "practical steps to restore friendly relations," and call off the three-year war that had given all of Southeast Asia the jitters. "It is a moving spectacle," beamed Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, who had sponsored the talks, "to see estranged friends shake hands again and even embrace...
...other nation, with the possible exception of the Soviet Union." Probably Sinologists in America have collected more facts about the physical aspects of China than have Sinologists elsewhere. But Chinese national psychology is far more important than any other factor in understanding the Chinese and other ethnic groups in Asia. China's perverted national psychology-anxiety to prove the myth of "center of the world," suspicion against the former "imperialists," and frustration at having been an underdog-cannot be easily understood or readily compensated for by those who have never had a similar experience...
...refusing to discuss its operations. It has only one major customer: the U.S. Government. And, as anyone who has seen its silver planes around Viet Nam, Laos and Thailand might surmise, Air America is a special kind of enterprise. It is so special, in fact, that virtually everyone in Asia assumes it to be the child - or first cousin - of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...henchmen are Czechoslavakian themselves, often residents of the village. The film thus shows us jealous neighbor persecuting more fortunate neighbor in an almost vigilante fashion. The topic is indeed timely for, if we can believe C. L. Sulzberger, this kind of persecution is taking place today throughout Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia, where the overseas Chinese and other minority groups are constantly subject to attack under the guise of anti-Communism...