Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congratulations on your choice of General Westmoreland. However, I would like to voice my disappointment that you never chose General Douglas MacArthur as your Man of the Year. MacArthur was the main reason we haven't lost more of Asia...
...failed to guess the Man of the Year. However, I now realize that General Westmoreland is the logical choice. He is directing a battle that will undoubtedly decide the future of Asia and probably the world...
...consuming not only money and manpower but vast stores of the nation's time and energy. Some time in 1966, the U.S. must decide what it hopes to achieve with this huge expenditure. It must decide where it is headed in Viet Nam and the rest of Asia, and whether it is sufficiently the master of events there to channel them toward its goals...
...disease variously known as schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, or simply snail fever. The more man does to increase his food supply, the more he nurtures the parasites and spreads the disease. Only a few years ago, the world had an estimated 100 to 200 million schistosomiasis victims spread across much of Asia, Africa and Latin America; now the estimate is 50% higher, largely because new irrigation canals and other waterworks have enlarged the parasites' habitat...
...tiny island of Singapore, strategically situated midway between India and China, has long been a commercial center of Southeast Asia. It processes and exports rubber, tin, pepper and copra from Malaya and Borneo, imports machinery from Australia, Britain and the U.S. Its trade has made it a leading banking, warehousing and insurance city in Asia. When Singapore joined with neighboring Malaya, nearby Sarawak and North Borneo in 1963 to form the rich Federation of Malaysia its 1.8 million people prepared expectantly for a boom in business...