Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visible outside the U.S. than in. Surely, without a growing conviction that the U.S. is winning in Viet Nam, Indonesia would never have felt secure enough to ignore Red China, patch up its quarrel with Malaysia, and move-as it was moving last week-toward a broad anti-Communist Asian union with Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. Something of the same confidence in what the U.S. is achieving in Viet Nam is plainly needed at home...
...Asian Way. Impressed by Malik's obvious good will, the Malaysians accepted his reasoning without question. At a press conference, Razak waved off the doubters with a single sentence: "You may think it a strange way of doing things, but it is our way-the Asian way." And, in fact, there was every indication that his faith was justified. In Djakarta, the Indonesian government suddenly called a halt to its long propaganda barrage against Malaysia, followed that up by recalling its Fifth Mandao Brinof Brigade from the Malaysian border with the explanation that the "physical and technical" confrontation against...
Knight has no special training in Asian studies, but he has been studying Vietnamese eight hours a day for the past two weeks. He will leave for Vietnam in about three weeks
...Chinese talons are less than 100 miles away, North Viet Nam a bare 20 minutes as the U.S. fighter-bombers fly from their Thai bases. Everywhere on the great peninsula, militant Communism, poverty, misery, illiteracy, misrule, and a foundering sense of nationhood are the grim order of the Asian...
...Vital Core. For the Thais, proud and sensitive to any hint of interference by farangs or foreigners in their national life, the enormous U.S. buildup is a painful concession to the grim facts of Southeast Asian life. They talk about it as little as they can, admit virtually nothing officially, and have carefully made only gentleman's agreements, one at a time, for U.S. use of their bases. The U.S. in turn respects Thai feelings by trying, as one official puts it, to present a "low silhouette" on the Thai landscape. But inevitably, with the growing accumulation of American...