Word: asia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China, which has what the overcrowded colony lacks: plenty of space and unskilled labor. Already 200 firms have some operations in China-mostly of the labor-intensive kind-and 200 more expect to set up shop there by year's end. For example, Hong Kong's Asia International Electronics Ltd. sends components for its radio/tape cassette players to factories in Peking, where they are put together before being shipped back to the colony for final assembly and export. The Chinese workers are paid $25 a month, less than one-sixth of what A.I.E. pays its Hong Kong employees...
Contemporary Christian Medical Missions in Asia--Harvard-Yenching Institute, April...
Japanese Printmaking in the Seventies: Ten New Artists--Art Asia Gallery, 8 Newbury St., through June...
Rather commented on the trend towards blandness in television reporting. Stations decide to broadcast good news saying "let's not deal with people dying in Southeast Asia but say that the Lion's Club had a meeting and sang the national anthem...
...lift a lot of the moral burden off the American involvement. At the least, it seems less tenable to hold that the U.S. was guilty of the uniquely satanic imperialism that antiwar critics often saw-and still frequently see-behind American policy. The new conflicts in Southeast Asia add an element of retrospective perplexity to analysis of what the U.S. was doing there...