Word: asia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time for the United States to "react in a spirit which seeks to heal the wounds of war" in East Asia, former Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) told approximately 200 people in Longfellow Hall last night...
Mansfield said the United States should maintain friendly ties with East Asia, lessen tensions in the area to prevent conflict, and prevent any one power from dominating East Asia...
Citing specific cases, he said the United States should withdraw its remaining forces from Taiwan and remove pressure from Japan to expand its military power because expansion "would unsettle all of Asia...
...world's most important religious broadcasting stations, Radio Voice of the Gospel in Addis Ababa, was built by the Lutheran World Federation in 1963 and has a 200,000-watt transmitter that can reach about 1 billion people in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The station, worth an estimated $12 million, was known not only for spreading the Gospel but also for broadcasting the most reliable news and educational programs of any Africa-based outlet. Since the downfall of the Christian monarchy in 1974, Radio Voice has been under increasing pressure from Ethiopia's military rulers...
Another poem commented on the unpopularity of America's involvement in Southeast Asia by invoking the image of Kilroy, a fictitious mascot of American forces whose name appeared as scrawled graffitti throughout Europe and Korea but who became conspicuous by his absence from Vietnam. "Kilroy is absent without leave from Vietnam," McCarthy read, and the impact of the poem's message moved the audience to applause...