Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists were ready to talk. Then the possibility that the war might spill over into Cambodia seemed suddenly more remote with the decision by Prince Norodom Sihanouk to discuss documented U.S. charges that his country is being used as a sanctuary by Communist troops. President Johnson chose Old Asia Hand Chester Bowles, 66, U.S. Ambassador to India, for the mission. He will try to work out an accommodation with Sihanouk, an old acquaintance, that would guarantee Cambodia's borders. Though Sihanouk last week accepted eleven airplanes, including three MIG-17 jets, and several dozen heavy guns from Communist China...
...muscle that this Government has behind the dollar." He meant it. Three teams were dispatched abroad to urge "cooperative action" from America's allies-one headed by Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach to Europe, another led by Under Secretary for Political Affairs Eugene Rostow to Asia, a third captained by Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs Anthony Solomon to Canada. Preliminary negotiations were under way to offset the cost of keeping American troops overseas by getting West Germany to buy $700 million in U.S. Treasury bonds, Japan $500 million. A task force headed by New Mexico Publisher Robert McKinney...
...Hungarian theoretical journal Tarsadalmi Szemle, is "agitation and propaganda in a perseveringly Marxist spirit." To that end, a typical recent night's fare in Budapest kicked off with a blurb on the activities of red-scarfed youth groups. Then followed a 15-minute commentary on Southeast Asia by an official of the party newspaper, and an unillustrated and soporific 45-minute autobiography by a 70-year-old Communist militant...
...Nothing in their statement conflicts with the basic tenets of the Johnson Administration's policies in Southeast Asia and we would not describe those policies as moderate," it says...
Gavin, Kennedy, and Senator George McGovern (D-S.D.), and McCarthy were all visited by Lowenstein after his mid-September return from Southeast Asia. He was reportedly rebuffed by Gavin and Kennedy; he realized that McGovern, who is facing a hard fight for re-election to the Senate in 1968, could not possibly do it. Adamant in his search for an anti-war candidate, Lowenstein focused on persuading McCarthy, who was already deeply disturbed about LBJ and the War, to run. By mid-October, when Lowenstein visited Harvard in one of his frequent ten-state barnstorming tours, he was promising...