Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Their privations nowhere approach those of Asia's (or even some of Europe's) submerged millions-yet the wretchedness of America's poor is accentuated by the opulence of the society that surrounds them. More than 7,500,000 Americans live in rat-infested tenements or tumbledown shacks that are officially-and euphemistically-classified as "dilapidated"; 1,500 U.S. citizens still die yearly from diseases caused by malnutrition; 6,000,000 subsist on free Government surpluses. In today's society, the nation's 11 million functional illiterates are relegated for life to the precarious ranks...
...eerie lull settled over Southeast Asia last week, broken only by the rumble of Polish-built trucks on Red in filtration routes and the steady thump of American bombs aimed at interdicting them. The lull was reflected in South Viet Nam by battle statistics: the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese allies suffered only 456 dead in the previous week-the lowest toll since January 1965-and even when U.S. air cavalrymen surrounded three Red regiments near Bong Son last week, the bulk of the Communist force slipped furtively away. The enemy battalion that was finally trapped...
...positions hardened on both sides, the U.S.'s Raymond A. Hare, Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and South Asia, flew in for talks with both Feisal and Nasser. In the Saudi capital of Riyadh, Hare urged Feisal to cut off Royalist aid and give Nasser a chance to pull back without losing face. Feisal seemed willing-if he could be sure of Nasser. In Alexandria, Nasser refused, even though by doing so his country risks losing part or all of a new $150 million U.S. food-distribution program, and another $100 million worth of industrial-development...
...very specific list of intentions abroad--and he was the first candidate in a while to avoid Richman's criticism. Richman fears that as a result, the burden for policy planning ends up in the tradition-encrusted State Department with obsolete policies, like an insistense on stability in Southeast Asia. What he seems to be suggesting then, is the transfer of responsibility for long-range planning from the Foreign Service-laden Counselor's office in the State Department to an ideal White House, where irrelevant myths would be challenged and revised...
...they could reach." The waves were accompanied by a rain of volcanic ash that buried nearly everything left standing and by fumes that poisoned the population. In the wake of the catastrophic eruption, most of the surviving Minoans fled Crete, sailing to other Mediterranean islands, mainland Greece and even Asia Minor...