Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went in Asia last week, the U.S. moon landing formed an impressive backdrop for his visit. The President was not shy about capitalizing on the feat, even promising bits of moon rock to his hosts. One Far Eastern Foreign Minister, in fact, described Nixon's approach on the Asian tour as "Apollo diplomacy." Whether that was fair or not, Nixon certainly moved with space-age speed, visiting seven countries in as many days. His whirlwind schedule and the resulting mood of if-it's-Tuesday-this-must-be-Djakarta were not very conducive to thoughtful consultations. Still...
...course, a U.S. President would be foolish to declare a friendly Asian nation beyond the pale of American protection; Korea is not that distant a memory. The U.S. can also help an ally to oppose insurgency without committing American troops to the action. What Nixon was saying, aides explained, is that the U.S. might supply a menaced friend with instructors and equipment, but not combat forces. Yet if a nation whose welfare the U.S. valued were genuinely endangered from the outside-say by a large-scale Chinese invasion or a nuclear threat-the U.S. could not be expected to look...
Despite the ceremony, the shading came through. Nixon won full marks from Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos for his candor in explaining that the U.S. would maintain a presence in Southeast Asia while pressing Asians to take up the burden of their own defense. "Before you came," Marcos told Nixon, "we dreaded the possibility that the U.S. was going to abandon Asia completely, or on the other extreme that there might again be the policy of colonial dominance over the Asian countries." Philippine leaders have managed to contain the dissident Huks with government troops, and the country is geographically safe from...
...that stands on its own two feet," said Nixon as he urged the Thais to make new domestic reforms. Foreign Minister Thanat Kho-man took the cue from his guest. "It is an absolute necessity for Thailand to have many different measures to oppose the danger of aggression by Asian Communist countries," he said. "The most practical method is to develop our country and make it as progressive and prosperous as possible...
...final two stops in Asia were more routine. India's Indira Gandhi was pleased with the beginning of U.S. troop withdrawals from Viet Nam, but -probably mindful of the running Indian disputes with Pakistan-was doubtful that collective security would be successful for the nations of the Asian periphery. Pakistan's Yahya Khan wanted to buy new arms from the U.S., but Nixon could only tell him that the matter was under review in Washington. The government-lining Pakistan Times rejected collective security as a trap that might embroil the country in big-power conflicts, and announced that...