Word: asia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More is at stake than just Korea, however, as important as it is to Asian stability. The prospect of a U.S. withdrawal alarms Japan, which fears instability in the Korean peninsula, the traditional invasion route to the Japanese home islands. China fears that too precipitate a U.S. retreat from Asia would encourage aggressive Russian moves. The general's warning can only add to these apprehensions...
...take this easy way because "Kennedy and Johnson were right in going into Viet Nam." Nixon's only regret about his own tactics, he said, was that "I didn't act stronger sooner." Had the U.S. employed saturation bombing of civilian centers in Southeast Asia, he went on, the war would have ended "in a tragic way, but much, much sooner...
...years to the day after the collapse of the Saigon regime, the U.S. and Viet Nam's Communist rulers last week took an important step toward reconciliation. At the end of two days of cordial talks in Paris between Richard Holbrooke, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, and Phan Hien, Viet Nam's Deputy Foreign Minister, the U.S. agreed to stop opposing Viet Nam's admission to the U.N., which Washington has blocked three times since 1975. The U.S. also promised to lift a trade embargo after diplomatic relations are established. For their...
...busiest-now handles only half a dozen flights daily. In one of the control towers, a costly piece of equipment left behind by the Americans continues to receive signals from U.S. satellites and dutifully churns out a daily photochart of the weather pattern for all of Southeast Asia; it will probably do so until it runs out of its supply of American-made film...
...annual per capita income of only $185, Indonesia's 140 million people rank among the world's poorest. Roughly 6 million people are unemployed. The influx of foreign funds was led by an oil boom that has made Indonesia, with a daily output of 1.7 million bbl., Asia's only main exporter of crude. Corruption and haphazard government policies, however, have slowed further oil exploration to a crawl, and Indonesia may lose its exporting position within a decade...