Word: asia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegation had presented his KGB counterpart with a T shirt emblazoned: FREE THE TYURATAM EIGHTEEN! The gift was one of those arcane jokes that are best appreciated by SALT technicians. It referred to 18 heavy-missile launchers at the Soviets' Tyuratam test site in central Asia, which the Soviets claim are used only for tests and therefore do not count as strategic weapons. Well past the eleventh hour, the Soviets agreed to dismantle twelve of the launchers and to guarantee that the remaining six would be plainly marked as test silos...
President Carter will barely have returned from Vienna before he wings off again, this time to Asia for twelve more days of summer summitry. Sandwiched between state visits to Japan and South Korea is a two-day economic summit in Tokyo that poses a major international policy test...
...preserve their hard-sought independence. They have not succeeded. With surprising swiftness, Viet Nam has in the past three months turned increasingly to the Soviets for help in keeping its far-flung military machine running. In return, Moscow has extended its strategic and military reach into Southeast Asia with a vigor that has alarmed Japan and the Association of South East Asian Nations and certainly angered China...
...more tantalizing hypothetical questions of history. What if Alexander the Great had not gone on a three-day binge of eating and drinking in Persia in 323 B.C.? That overindulgence may have hastened his death at the age of 33. Would he have completed his conquest of Asia Minor and founded a more durable empire? There are historians who theorize that if Napoleon had not been suffering from hemorrhoids and insomnia at Waterloo, he would have had the presence of mind to prevent Field Marshal Blücher's retreating Prussians from joining forces with the Duke of Wellington...
Muller's bitterness reflected the widespread and justified feeling among the nation's 8.8 million Viet Nam-era veterans, especially the 2.8 million who served in Southeast Asia, that they have been treated much less sympathetically and generously than servicemen from previous wars. There are growing signs, however, that the national mood is changing. The standing ovation that Muller's tough talk received in Manhattan was one indication of that...