Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, Hanoi did not limit the talks, as it once threatened to do, to the subject of a U.S. bombing pause; the whole of Southeast Asia was discussed. Moreover, the U.S. is hoping that Hanoi is bargaining for something more than just time. One purpose of North Viet Nam's initially intransigent stance, aside from habit, may well be to convince Peking that there will be no sellout of the Viet Cong-just as the U.S. is constantly reassuring its allies that it will not abandon Saigon...
...Johnson and Prime Minister Harold Holt. When Holt drowned in the surf off Portsea last December, much of the intuitive understanding between Washington and Canberra died with him. Holt's successor, John Grey Gorton, has been so beset by doubts about the durability of the U.S. commitment to Asia that Australia is considering a complete overhaul of its own defense and foreign policies...
Australia fears that its own position would be badly compromised if the U.S. were to fold the protective military umbrella it holds over Southeast Asia. Since World War II, it has based its defense on joint efforts with the U.S. and Britain to halt the spread of Communism on the Asian mainland...
Intellectuals today righteously denounce President Johnson and America's foreign policy in Southeast Asia...
However, as journalism-which is history's fief in time-the book is another matter. Mailer is pretentious about Marxism. When he suggests that it would not really matter if all Asia went Communist, because expansion only creates problems for Communism, he is, at best, playful or naive. He brilliantly employs the suggestive, evocative devices of the new journalists-or old novelists. But he suggests too much, and evokes too wildly. He looks into the faces of the U.S. marshals and reads in them the notion that Viet Nam is where the "American small town" gets its "kicks...