Word: asia
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...committed to a policy of hostility United State; this country can hope to lessen the hostility by a willing-explore areas of mutual interest with Peking; the Nationalist Chinese regime has a future only as the government an, not of mainland China; the problem for the United States in Asia is to help Asian countries improve economic and social situations...
Such across-the-border cooperation has up to now largely eluded the na tions of Asia, and the dam symbolizes a change of vast potential consequences...
Despite ancient animosities, political rivalries and the Viet Nam war, 24 non-Communist Asian nations from Iran to Western Samoa are banding together for their own economic development -largely at the behest of the United Na tions Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. "The river is a psy chological rallying point," says U Nyun, ECAFE executive secretary. "Countries that normally bicker can work together. The Mekong project holds the seeds -perhaps the only really promising seeds -for abiding peace in Southeast Asia...
...harnessing the Himalaya-fed Mekong. In addition to Nam Pong dam, five other power and irrigation projects costing $50.7 million are built or abuilding on Mekong tributaries. Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines forged another kind of economic tie two weeks ago by reviving the dormant Association for Southeast Asia, tentatively agreeing to cut cable rates, swap radio and TV shows, begin free trade in a few commodities. Headquarters for the $1 billion Asian Development Bank, aimed at financing such sinews as power, railroads and industry, is rising in Manila; the bank hopes to open by summer. Within two to four...
Jigsaw Puzzle. For all its progress, Asia is a long way from such close bonds as those of Europe's Common Market. Poverty compels Asia's economic partners to put resource development, notably of the Mekong, ahead of tariff cutting and trade. In Asia's developing countries, per-capita income averages only $100 a year, agriculture ties up 71% of the labor force, 60% illiteracy among persons over 14 hobbles productivity, and a worsening trade deficit cancels half the bounty of foreign aid. U Nyun expects the area to spawn "a jigsaw puzzle" of groups for differing...