Word: asia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Puzzling Out Man's Ascent" [Nov. 7], a difficult task was accomplished well and with considerable sensitivity. There are many workers in America, Britain, France, Africa, Asia and other places who were not mentioned in the story, and I would not wish them to believe that they were forgotten. As one of the leading French anthropologists, Yves Coppens, said to me, "It is a pity we could not all be mentioned, but it is enough that the subject we are a part of has warranted the status of a TIME cover...
Your article on Cambodia [Nov. 21] made me wonder what happened to all of the people who screamed "genocide" at American activities in Southeast Asia designed to prevent the type of atrocities currently being committed by the Pol Pot regime. Our human rights campaign has to date been highly selective, directed primarily against governments of the right while leaving left-leaning regimes almost completely alone. Talk about the old double standard...
...article in an Australian paper that praised the Nazis. In a long letter he described what he had seen in a visit to Nazi-governed Germany. Since then he has covered the globe, concentrating on leftwing movements and struggles for national liberation. Most of his work has dealt with Asia, particularly Indochina, but he has also written about struggles in Africa and Portugal. By remaining a freelancer, he has escaped the pitfalls that most journalists run into: he contributes regularly to The Guardian in this country and to other independent left-wing papers in Europe, but has generally avoided editorial...
Turner has also brought on needless complications by offering two different explanations for the trimming. He first argued that it was merely an effort to reduce the enlarged ranks caused by the war in Southeast Asia. But officers retort Schlesinger's reductions had done that. Next Turner contended that the U.S.'s technological capability for gathering intelligence had improved so much that far fewer field agents were needed...
...Knight-Ridder chain, which includes such fine dailies as the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Detroit Free Press. Knight, an Eisenhower conservative and friend of Nixon's, lost a son in World War II. From Dien Bien Phu on, he warned against American involvement in Southeast Asia, and when the U.S. did get involved, he continued to oppose the war in the "Editor's Notebook" he wrote. This went out to all his papers, but with no instructions that they must run it. "Most of my editors were against me personally," he recalls cheerfully...