Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. The adventures of a fine old Victorian eccentric who roamed uncharted areas of North Africa and Asia and spent his spare time cataloguing the varieties of sexual activity he encountered along...
...attractive." For, argues Reischauer, "however our withdrawal might be papered over, it would be recognized everywhere as a defeat for us, and we would have to face the consequences"; the most important consequence "would be the psychological and political impact of our defeat." The nations of South and Southeast Asia, he writes, "would feel much less secure if the U.S. were forced to admit defeat at the hands of Communist insurgents. Such an outcome would send a massive psychological tremor through all these countries, further threatening their stability and perhaps sharply shifting their present international orientation." A U.S. defeat...
action in Viet Nam, and Malaysia was the first country in Southeast Asia to send materiel to Saigon...
...Hong Kong is holding out against the gongs and tongs of its mainland enemies. In their island bastion, Producer Run Run Shaw and his sibling Run Me grind out 40 such Chinese films a year, have become so successful that they now own the biggest show-business empire in Asia. Their movies may be tragedies, but with 132 movie houses and seven amusement parks, the Shaws continue to enjoy the last laugh...
Whether stability can be maintained in the face of China's rise in Asia and the consequent American commitment there, Halle does not venture...