Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fulbright, who has repeatedly warned that the U.S. commitment to Viet Nam might lead to war with China. And for all the chairman's hopeful proddings, the scholars without exception described as unrealistic Fulbright's contention that the U.S. and Red China should agree to "neutralize" Southeast Asia. Samuel B. Griffith, a retired Marine Corps brigadier general and old China hand who holds an Ox ford University doctorate in Chinese military history and translated Mao Tse-tung's key treatise On Guerrilla Warfare, bluntly told the committee: "I don't think the Chinese would place...
...experts generally agreed, too, that China's internal problems have left Peking the paper dragon of world powers. "Save through the application of her doctrine of national-liberation wars, China cannot influence events outside peripheral areas," said Griffith. Thus "she wishes above all to remove our presence from Asia." To a man, the Sinologists urged that the U.S. try to normalize relations with China, however unrewarding that might be. They proposed that Washington recognize the Peking regime, support its admission to the U.N. (provided Nationalist China is not ousted) and in general follow a policy of "containment without isolation...
...cold war, since these critics tend to believe that Europe is a legitimate sphere of influence for America. Last week, as he signed a bill authorizing U.S. participation in the $1 billion Asian Development Bank, the President rebutted the Europe-first approach as an "argument of isolationism." Said Johnson: "Asia must no longer sit at the second table of the 20th century's concern...
...strange, or their race different, or their skin another color. The economic net work of this shrinking globe is too intertwined, the political order of continents is too involved with one another, the threat of common disaster is too real for all human beings to say of Asia-or any other continent-'Yours is another sphere...
...Violent Oscillations." High over Southeast Asia, the tumbling spacecraft came into range of the Coastal Sentry. "It's in a roll, and we can't seem to turn anything off," Armstrong informed the shipboard controller, who reported to Houston that Gemini was now "showing' pretty violent oscillations." It seemed to Armstrong that Gemini's No. 8 thruster -one of the small rockets used to turn or yaw the craft-had stuck open and was pushing the craft into an uncontrollable spin, which at one point reached a critical rate of a complete revolution each second...