Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under Franco has the lowest rate in juvenile delinquency in Europe, the lowest rate in murder, assault, suicide, divorce, and no pornographic magazines. You also forgot to mention that we are sending billions of dollars and thousands of young Americans to South Viet Nam to hold back Communism in Asia, but it was these hard-headed Spaniards under Franco who crushed Communism in Spain during 1936-39, at no cost to America. You finally forgot to mention that Spain under Franco has never given America a headache, big or small. You ask: After Franco, what? I answer: After Franco...
...Southeast Asia, the Year of the Snake ended and the Year of the Horse began. For the U.S. and its allies, last week marked a more ominous turning point. After a Christmas truce that was not a truce, after a four-day New Year cease-fire in which the firing did not cease, after a suspension of U.S. bombing raids over North Viet Nam that brought no whisper of response to President Johnson's intensive, month-long peace campaign, it was all too clear that the holiday and its fleeting hopes for peace were over...
Johnson admitted that his calculations were highly tentative. Said the President: "No one can firmly predict the course of events in Southeast Asia...
...large measure on confidence in America's word and in America's protection. To yield to force in Viet Nam would weaken that confidence. We would have to fight in one land, and then we'd have to fight in another-or abandon much of Asia to the domination of Communists. And we do not intend to abandon Asia to conquest...
...goal of balancing the ability to mete out massive (nuclear) retaliation with the troop strength, versatility and mobility needed to fight limited actions. Five years ago, the U.S. could have blown up much of the world, but it could not have put a relatively small ground force into Southeast Asia without undermining its strength elsewhere. Today the U.S. is able to honor its worldwide commit ments while fighting in South Viet Nam. For some of the very reasons that he is under attack in Congress, McNamara has been able to keep the defense budget from growing even faster than...