Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suitable communications, staging and refueling sites. Britain's biggest bases east of Suez are in jeopardy-Aden, with its 14,000 men, is expected to become unusable in two years due to Arab pressure; Singapore-Malaysia, with 51,000 men and the best strategic location in Southeast Asia, is likely to be evacuated by 1970 at the latest, depending partly on how great a threat Indonesia continues to pose in its confrontation with Malaysia...
...cause of peace? The SDS admittedly does not profess to be a pacifist group. Nonetheless, the demand for immediate recourse to military action is hardly the initial response to be expected of a body whose origins lie in the sense of moral outrage at the holocaust in Southeast Asia. Surely the SDS is not merely attempting to counter-act the imputation of cowardice and draft-dodging by championing a war in another part of the world. What a cruel perversion of liberal principles it would be to promote majority African rule by means of the physical elimination of a reactionary...
...novelist, whose concern with Asia stems from a personal contact over the years with both Asian leaders and populations, led and audience of 75 in a 90-minute discussion of the Vietnamese crisis in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
Lederer also criticized the press's coverage of Asia. American journalists, he said, are handicapped by a European frame of reference and an interest in only sensational developments...
...things their nation is there. Despite all the headlines, all the vignettes of heroism and horror, all the demonstrations and counterdemonstrations in the U.S. itself, the average American, cushioned by prosperity and a span of 8,500 miles, has found it hard to realize that the struggle in Southeast Asia is indeed a war. But it is-and that fact was driven home last week as never before when a fresh, division-strength Communist force laid the bold and bloody siege of Plei Me in the rugged jungle highlands 215 miles northeast of Saigon (see following story...