Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will keep on growing. At the time of the President's speech in July, American forces in Southeast Asia numbered 135,000; today they total nearly a quarter of a million. Returning last week from his seventh visit to Saigon since 1962, Defense .Secretary Robert McNamara reported that while the U.S. has "stopped losing the war," it will be a long, arduous struggle. With him he brought the recommendations from field commanders that U.S. forces in South Viet Nam be increased to 480,000 by 1967. If Hanoi responds in kind, say U.S. military planners in Saigon, a commitment...
...committee's report has never been released, for the assumption on which it was based--that the armed forces' manpower needs relative to supply would decline drastically--has been obviated by the rapidly escalating conflict in South East Asia. To fight the "half war" it is now waging in Vietnam, the administration has launched a "half draft" at home...
...letter that North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh wrote two weeks ago to U.S. Scientist Linus Pauling, a leading ban-the-bomb crusader. For the umpteenth time, Ho denounced "U.S. aggression," calling it "the sole root of the serious situation in Viet Nam and in Southeast Asia." His letter then proceeded to enunciate the unvarying set of preconditions to peace talks that Hanoi laid down last April. Once again Ho insisted that the "most correct way" to end the war was for "the U.S. imperialists" to withdraw their troops, abandon their ally and accept the Viet Cong...
...election, Democrats not only failed to make the major gains they expected in the house; their strength even dropped a fraction to 23%. In the senate, Demo cratic membership fell from 43% to a mere 20%. Massachusetts-born Hoff, who was on a State Department tour of Europe and Asia for all but the last week of the campaign, called it a "horrendous defeat." Penny-wise Vermonters had plainly responded to G.O.P. National Committeewoman Consuelo Bailey's charge: "This Governor's been spending the way Johnson does in Washington. Some of the bonding people out of state have...
...abroad. The Europeans, for example hanker for more and more U.S.-type goods and services. Recently, Americans abroad have begun to launch everything from "heel bars" for Europeans with worn-down shoes to recruiting firms for U.S. businesses seeking European managers for overseas. In many parts of Latin America, Asia and Africa, the risk-taking businessman will find waiting markets for housing and manufactured goods, can get attractive investment guarantees from the U.S. Agency for International Development...