Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although there were battles and at least 25 deaths in pre-election campaigning, Kaunda was determined that such internecine struggle should be ended after election day. "I have no doubt," he said, "that young Zambia will be one of those few countries to break the nasty record in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where post-independence elections have brought some kind of confusion...
Last week, in the sleepy port city of Cochin (pop. 35,076) on India's Malabar coast, glittering strips of tinsel and Stars of David were strung over a narrow two-mile street known locally as "Jew Town." Nearly 200 religious scholars, archaeologists and historians from Asia, Europe and the U.S. were in town, along with a delegation of Indian leaders led by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The guests had gathered to commemorate the 1900th anniversary of one of the smallest (100 people) but most resilient communities in the Dias pora: the Jews of Cochin...
...last great underdeveloped markets for air travel reaches from the U.S. across the Pacific-to Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia and the islands in between. No major Pacific routes have been awarded by the U.S. Government since 1946, and airline executives have been lobbying long and hard to get more. The first leg of the air race ended last spring, when a Civil Aeronautics Board examiner recommended that the international business be divided up among five carriers. The final decision was up to the White House, which last week finally put an end to the marathon...
...been fascinated by Zen, and he argued that Buddhism was a philosophic discipline that could well be employed by Christians. "Buddhism is not word," a he told religion in friends our at sense of the California's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions on his way to Asia in October. "It's a totally different approach to reality, a psychological thing. I be lieve it's quite possible for a Catholic to enter into the esoteric traditions of Tibetan Buddhism." He departed for Asia, said W. H. Ferry of the Center, "absolutely bouncing with expectation...
...like Eichmann and the others, protested that he was just doing his duty. Released in 1951 through a controversial act of U.S. clemency, he soon broke his pledge to the Allies never again to produce coal or steel and began selling to new markets, especially in Eastern Europe and Asia. When the Krupp firm finally foundered in 1966, because of overextended credit, it was only because Alfried was clinging to old financial ways. He died soon after, and with him, the dynasty. His son Arndt, a wiK lowy jet-setter, who does not carry the Krupp name, sensibly...