Word: asia
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...Dhahran are not to occur and if the region is to remain stable, the U.S. must act with care as it rapidly expands its permanent presence. Is the U.S. properly sophisticated about these matters? Comments after the bombing by General Kurt Anderson, commander of the Joint Task Force Southwest Asia, are not encouraging. Asked why Americans were attacked, Anderson said, "I can't tell you why somebody would want to target us." Further questioned about Islamic antipathy for the American presence in Saudi Arabia, Anderson said, "I can tell you my experience throughout all of Saudi Arabia. We are welcome...
CHOLERA. In 1991 a freighter coming from South Asia emptied its bilges off the coast of Peru. Along with the wastewater came a strain of cholera that found a home in huge algal blooms stimulated by unusually warm ocean waters and abundant pollution. The microbe then made its way into shellfish and humans. So far, the epidemic has infected over half a million people and killed at least...
Rodrik has done research in parts of the globe ranging from East Asia to the Middle East to Eastern Europe and said he will continue work on a book he is writing, tentatively titled Has International Economic Integration Gone...
...country's minimum wage--if the factory owner abides by the rules. Nike, like most of the big American firms, does not own any factories in Indonesia; it hires Korean and Taiwanese-owned factories to supply footwear made to Nike specifications. The company has some 800 staff members in Asia whose responsibility includes factory inspection. Yet, says an industry source, "shoe factories are huge. There are 3,000 workers in there. Our inspectors try to manage, but it's a big beast." Overall, the lot of Indonesian workers is improving. Real wages increased 55% from 1990 to 1995, according...
Holbrooke's piece is akin to Robert McNamara's and Henry Kissinger's self-serving pronouncements and Monday-morning quarterbacking as to their roles in Southeast Asia. The real, original tragedy labeled Bosnia is the bumbling dismemberment of formerly confederated Yugoslavia. A worldly wise Swiss friend of mine, who has lived in both the Balkans and the Middle East, made an interesting comparison: In Lebanon an imperfect but very livable and prosperous Swiss-type status quo prevailed for years, providing Christians, Muslims, Druzes and others breathing space and give-and-take ethnoreligious integrity. But recently that harmony has ceased...