Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally be amenable to agreement, that discovery was not long in coming. Last week continued Communist attacks in South Viet Nam forced him to confront his first foreign-policy crisis as President. It not only undercut his attempts to reassure Europeans that the U.S. is not preoccupied with Southeast Asia, but jeopardized the climate of calm and unity that he had worked so hard to create...
...rich nations are not able, as it seems that they are not, to construct a generally competent educational system for themselves, do you foresee any hopes of such a system created in Africa or Asia--in view of the crisis facing both in the next twenty years...
...tour is a unique project designed to provide a group of top U.S. businessmen with an opportunity to gather information and insights into some of the principal countries of the Far East. The fourth such undertaking arranged by TIME since 1963 (the others went to Western Europe and Russia, Asia and Eastern Europe), this year's trip will have carried its participants on a 23,000-mile journey to ten cities in eight Asian countries before ending in the U.S. next week with a White House debriefing by President Nixon...
...tour members, traveling as concerned citizens at their own expense, are principal officers of major business organizations. Together they employ 2,400,000 people and had combined sales in 1968 of more than $55 billion. They went to the Far East as observers eager to sound out Asia's leaders. Led by the publisher, TIME'S delegation included Board Chairman Andrew Heiskell, President James A. Linen, Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and Managing Editor Henry Grunwald. The tour program was organized by the Time-Life News Service, with Chief of Correspondents Richard Clurman and TIME correspondents in cities...
Everywhere the group went, the main questions on the agenda were the Viet Nam war and what is to follow when it ends. As they charted their continent's future course, Asia's leaders argued with out exception that the U.S. must continue to play a prominent role. Talking with tour members in Bangkok, Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman urged the U.S. to abandon its tendency to talk about "so-called priorities" between trouble spots in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere. Thanat's explanation was straightforward: "The people who live in lesser-priority...