Word: asia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bombing raid on the oil fields of Ploesti, Rumania, in 1943. He was director of operations for the Fifth Air Force during the Korean War, served as military assistant to the Secretary of Defense (1959-63), and in 1968 became responsible for the U.S. air war in Southeast Asia. In 1973 President Nixon made him chief of staff of the Air Force and one year later appointed him to his last post. A blunt man with a compulsion to speak his mind, Brown caused a storm of protest when in 1974 he criticized Jewish influence on U.S. foreign policy...
...contains no antiwar characters at all; its prowar characters are apolitical foot soldiers, not fire-breathing gook killers. The film is as far removed from Coming Home as it is from The Green Berets. Cimino has attempted to embrace all the tragic contradictions of the U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia...
...Japanese aid to Asia: It is natural from a geographic viewpoint [that] Japan should continue to place emphasis on Asia. The pan-Pacific region is not like Europe. The economies are in different stages of development, the quality of the economies is different, and any associations are very loosely tied. The ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] does exist, however, and it must be respected, but it is not like the European Community association. This means that our aid will move more on the bilateral plane [instead of being filtered through the regional association...
These were questions that plagued nervous Western diplomats as Iran-the oil-rich keystone to stability in volatile Central Asia-staggered through another week of turmoil and antigovernment demonstrations that have brought the economy to a virtual standstill. A walkout by 11,000 employees of Iran Air grounded all 162 daily flights of the country's flag airline; more serious was a strike by 37,000 workers at Iran's nationalized oil refineries, which initially reduced production from 6 million bbl. per day to about 1.5 million bbl. That strike not only cost the government about $60 million...
...normal standards, certifications and product health and safety regulations, foreign imports have to face lengthy and expensive testing procedures. Until very recently, even the smallest error gave minor bureaucrats an excuse to order the whole thing redone. Certification, laments John Quick, vice president in charge of GM's Asia-Pacific operations, is "a long, involved process that can take up to eight months" and requires "carloads of papers...