Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rioters were some 380 Malays, members of a 470-man recruit-training company of Singapore's snappy Local Defense Corps, a military unit that guards power plants and government buildings in the tiny Asian seaport state. Though Singapore's population of nearly 2,000,000 is four-fifths Chinese, half of its cops and soldiers come from the 270,000 Malays, who comprise a jealous and often violent minority. Hence, when a Chinese Defense Corps major last week ordered the recruit company to split up by race and then dismissed the Malays from military service, the amok mechanism...
Oglesby said that American policy makers believe that Vietnam is the truce line between the United States and China and that eventually the Chinese "will join hands with American Bankers." But this will never happen, he continued, because Asia is revolutionary, while Europe was not. The Asian people are deeply committed to change because of "national aspiration combined with national resentment...
...South Vietnamese government must Viet Cong police methods in order to regain and maintain control of the Vietnamese villages, John K. Fairbank '29, Director of the East Asian Research Center, told an Americans for Re-appraisal of Far Eastern Policy meeting last night...
...President willing to accept retired General James Gavin's theory that U.S. troops should pull back to a series of coastal enclaves. This notion is chiefly supported by Pundit Walter Lippmann, former Korean War Commanding General Matthew Ridgway, who has long argued against committing U.S. troops to the Asian...
...visit to Saigon, Javits rose on the floor of the Senate to declare that "the President would and should have the support of the overwhelming majority of the American people if he decides to resume the limited bombing." Challenging Mansfield's recent jeremiad foreseeing a "bottomless Asian land war," Javits argued that "militarily, the situation is at least encouraging"; that "the impact of our buildup is just beginning to be felt," and that most South Vietnamese now believe, as they plainly did not a year ago, that the Viet Cong will be defeated-possibly in as little...