Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia and announced that he would later visit tiny Cambodia, the war in Viet Nam seemed to be a more urgent topic of conversation. The chief foreign-policy concerns of both America and Russia now lie in Asia. U.S. congressional committees and other forums heatedly debate the stability of Asian regimes, the aspirations of the Mekong Delta peasants, the nature of Buddhism. Understanding Asia has become an urgent task...
...still uncommitted about the Spring. "All my work used to be in the pre-modern period, and now I just don't know where I fit in," But if he is unsure as to what he will teach, his planned writing on modern Japan, diplomacy, and the Asian scene, should keep him busy. His final job during the year will be to drop by the State Department occasionally to advice our Far Eastern policy makers...
...three days of talks hosted by South Korea's President Chung Hee Park, the nine nations agreed to form a loose association to be called the Asian and Pacific Council. Eschewing a formal treaty, ASPAC's founders modestly limited their aims to consultation on economic and cultural matters. But it was the kind of friendly grouping that could develop into a new Asian and Pacific bloc in the United Nations. The foreign ministers will assemble again next year in Bangkok. Meanwhile, committees will weigh the feasibility of such cooperative ventures as a common commodities and fertilizer bank...
...consultant on Asian Communism at the University of Southern California and as a former newspaperman, I compliment TIME for its excellent cover story on Thailand's attempt at peaceful social revolution [May 27]. In Southeast Asia last summer with a State Department mission, I came to see that there is no substitute for concern-before the guerrillas come. As you show, both the U.S. and Thailand have learned this well...
...spend roughly $45 billion during the next five years to 1) mechanize the farms, 2) increase chemical-fertilizer output, 3) irrigate 6,500,000 acres of arid soil, and 4) rehabilitate and drain an estimated 11 million acres of potentially tillable land. Unlike Khrushchev, who concentrated on opening up Asian virgin lands, Brezhnev and Kosygin plan to put the main emphasis on improving already cultivated areas west of the Urals. Brezhnev also put his prestige behind the most unusual departure in Soviet agriculture since the 1930s: a guaranteed wage for the kolkhozniks (collective farm laborers) that will make their income...