Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight people with their own opinions," snapped Bing. "If critics were acrobats, they would all long ago be dead." ∙∙∙ Ill lay: German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, 55, in Bonn with an attack of pleurisy that caused him to cancel last week's scheduled trip to Asia; baseball's Casey Stengel, 77, recovering in Glendale, Calif, from major surgery for a perforated peptic ulcer; Lawyer Percy Foreman, 66, in Houston with a case of pneumonia that could prevent him from preparing the defense of James Earl Ray in time for the March 3 trial opening; Bishop...
...circled the earth in his Soyuz 4 spacecraft last week, Russian Cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov looked down toward central Asia to watch a tiny billow of flame and smoke. It was Soyuz 5, on its way with Cosmonauts Boris Volynov, Evgeny Khrunov and Aleksei Eliseev. "I'll meet you soon in space," radioed Shatalov...
...farewell State of the Union address was very much the kind of performance that we've come to expect from him. The address was full of the old familiar LBJisms--his assurances that peace is closer than ever, his juggled financial statistics, his flagwaving reference to our troops in Asia, his understandable concern over his own place in history...
...author tries to excuse, in contrast, the massive violence the U.S. continues to inflict on the people of South-east Asia: because we now "seem to regret it" and "seem ashamed." Therefore we are somehow justified in assuming outrage at the unregretted "violence" of the North Koreans against the Pueblo...
...means let us "Remember the Pueblo": let us remember it for its real meaning, as one bungled example of the American imperialist mission, a mission which entails the daily oppression of, and daily violence against the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Jack Stauder Instructor in Social Anthropology