Word: asia
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Since October 30th Gavin has been touring Southeast Asia. He returns to the country later this week and will appear Sunday on NBC's Meet The Press. Although Gavin has given the Citizens' committee no verbal encouragement, Jick reports that "he was quite visibly moved" by the work of his supporters...
...naming Peking as the real threat to U.S. interests. "We fought side by side with Asians at Bataan and Corregidor, in Korea and now in Viet Nam," said the President. "We have utterly repudiated the racist nonsense of an earlier era. Indeed, we have made a commitment in Asia because we do believe that no men, whatever the pigmentation of their skins, should ever be delivered over to totalitarianism, that freedom is not a prize reserved for white Europeans or Americans in our private enclaves of affluence...
...well feed on popular discouragement over Viet Nam. But, as Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach noted recently at Connecticut's Fairfield University, it would be "a grievous and dangerous delusion to believe all our problems would be solved if we withdrew from Viet Nam, or from Asia, or from anywhere else." From Latin America, New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger wrote last week: "Our humiliation in Viet Nam would persuade guerrilla nuclei here of the efficacy of 'national liberation' wars. Our adversaries know, even if we do not, that revolutionary warfare in Viet...
...villages a measure of protection and some civic-action aid. Other cadres sound out local needs, gathering intelligence in the process. Nor is the government ignoring propaganda: it has put up posters in the Northeast showing Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh hovering over a map of Southeast Asia, stretching their fingers toward Thailand...
...within the United States. I hope that in considering possible discipline of those involved, the Faculty will not allow parochial considerations of their own convenience to blind them to the enoromous moral implications of the demonstrators' stand. Few of the many parallels drawn between the war in S.E. Asia and World War II seem to be relevant. But it is certainly possible that if the manufacturers of poisonous gases in Nazi Germany had been more actively opposed by other Germans, many lives might have been spared. J.B.P. Lovell Teaching Fellow in General Education