Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three Democratic candidates last week took off the gloves and began punching barefisted. Eugene McCarthy, for the first time, directly charged Robert Kennedy with a major role in the initial decision to commit U.S. military power to Southeast Asia, declaring that Camelot II might lead to "further involvements like Viet...
Asians, says Japan's Foreign Minister Takeo Miki, must work together on "a blueprint for the construction of peace." Behind that message lies the fact that the Viet Nam war-with its massive in flux of U.S. dollars-has had a major economic impact on non-Communist Asia. With peace a distinct, if still distant possibility, the challenge confronting Asians is to gird their war-swollen economies for a more enduring-and healthier-resurgence...
...Asia is short on specific plans-shorter still on capital-for economic development. There is no dearth, however, of physical or human resources. Its technical advisers in Viet Nam have proved that Taiwan has the kind of electric power, harbor development and agricultural experts necessary for rebuilding war's ruins. Malaysia can join in the reconstruction effort with timber and cement, South Korea with textiles and fertilizer. Indonesia, potentially a major Asian supplier of oil and copper, is even now busily luring the foreign investment necessary to exploit its rich natural resources...
...longer run, he questions whether his comparatively small (pop. 12 million) country can afford to maintain any military presence at all in Asia unless joined by powerful allies, including the U.S. Despite pressure from his own Cabinet, Gorton has so far refused to commit his government to keep forces in Malaysia after the British withdraw in 1971. "Our traditional concept of forward defense," he said recently, "may have to be abandoned in the not too distant future...
Like the Israelis. Instead, Gorton has talked of pulling Australian troops home and creating a mobile "Israeli-type" citizens' army ready to leap into action anywhere in Southeast Asia on short notice. Washington considers such a "fortress Australia" policy a serious mistake, arguing that it would fail to meet Australia's defense needs while alienating the country's Asian neighbors, who depend on Australia's overseas garrisons, small though they are, to keep order. So far, the fortress concept remains only an idea in Gorton's mind. Washington hopes to convince him that, whatever happens...