Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover portrait is TIME'S most meaningful so far. Dean Rusk, an otherwise most handsome man, becomes a stricken symbol of the war in Viet Nam. The artist has drawn a picture of my own considered reservations about the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia...
...Pattani, in southern Thailand. Linen was visiting Thailand as guest of Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, and during his stay was honored by the King, who made him Dvitiyabhorn (Knight Commander) of the Most Noble Order of the Crown. Linen first met Thanat during TIME'S news tour of Asia last winter, when the Foreign Minister's vigor and his views of the U.S. role in Asia made a sharp impression on the U.S. business executives who were on the trip. Among Thanat's domestic responsibilities is the development of southern Thailand, and he enlisted Linen...
Nevertheless, the imposing array of officialdom at the Honolulu talks signaled that the President intended to conduct a wide-ranging examination of the military, political and psychological conduct of the Viet Nam war-indeed, of U.S. strategy in all Southeast Asia. From Washington came Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler, retired Joint Chairman Maxwell Taylor, White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner and Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. From Saigon came a 28-member South Vietnamese entourage headed by Ky, Chief...
...policy, the CRIMSON also opposes those who, in urging unilateral withdrawal from the war, insist we have no commitments in Vietnam. For American policy and rhetoric in the past and American presence today have created commitments both to our supporters in South Vietnam and to our allies throughout Southeast Asia; these commitments cannot be ignored...
Finally, the United States must begin now to free its military and political resources and use them more constructively to guarantee the national integrity of our allies in Southeast Asia. By using American economic and social programs now rather than later, the United States can help promote the reforms which make "wars of national liberation" less likely. And the Americans will still have sea and air power around the peninsula to bolster by implication those allies who might otherwise quake before the threat of Chinese military might. With a more realistic use of our resources in Southeast Asia, the dominoes...