Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are twice as many kangaroos as there are people in Australia. This is reassuring for marsupial buffs, but worrisome for the men who are struggling to develop and hold their rich, empty western outpost in an Asia seething with unrest. With only 11 million humans in a land as big as the continental U.S., Australia is rushing to completion $4 billion worth of industrial projects over the next five years. The labor shortage is so severe that in some skilled occupations there are 15 jobs for every applicant. Despite an influx of 1,800,000 immigrants since...
Anthropology S-119: This study of "Social Organization in Southeast Asia" will permit you to drop the requisite number of comments on the habits of Vietnamese villagers into your next discussion of The Situation...
...Will Never Win." De Gaulle restated his well-known views on Southeast Asia, and Humphrey, in rebuttal, defended the U.S. position. The U.S. is there, Humphrey said, to honor commitments made several years ago by President Eisenhower. Washington seeks only a free and independent South Viet Nam. But De Gaulle should have no doubt about American determination to remain in Viet Nam until a satisfactory settlement is reached. As Humphrey talked, De Gaulle shook his head, said gloomily: "You will never win." Continued American military pressure, De Gaulle observed, will only make Hanoi more stubborn. They agreed on only...
...members of its onetime Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, no nation hates Japan more bitterly than Korea-and the antipathy is mutual. Koreans, still smarting from 35 years of harsh colonial rule by imperial Japan, regard their former masters as a cruel, crafty race bent on reasserting economic domination of their country. To most Japanese, on the other hand, Koreans are senjin-subhumans-personified by the garlic-reeking Korean thugs who rule Tokyo's underworld. Such acid antagonisms are not easily neutralized in an Asia rent by revolution and rising nationalism. Last week, nonetheless, Japan and South Korea...
...Japanese rank among the world's most energetic-and peripatetic-salesmen. They have made Southeast Asia a virtual backyard for their products, have long had an important place in the U.S. market, have moved strongly into Latin America. Now they are busy tackling an even more challenging area: Africa. From Cape Town to Cairo, indefatigable Japanese are scrambling over the continent, taking orders, building plants and signing trade pacts. They are making TV sets in Ghana, spinning textiles in Nigeria, galvanizing iron in Ethiopia, building a nylon mill in Kenya and assembling Nissan and Toyota cars in South Africa...