Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series of conferences. Just before leaving Taipei, Chiang had declared that "a final and decisive war between Communist and Nationalist Chinese forces is inevitable," but he was much more restrained in Washington. His and McNamara's joint communiqué said simply that they had discussed the Asian situation, the question of Formosan aid to Viet Nam (the U.S. does not want it), and U.S. military aid to Formosa (which has declined to about $70 million a year). Chiang went to a series of dinners and cocktail parties, saw President Johnson for 30 minutes, and called on his stepmother daily...
...Movement has little interest in "direct democracy" and a "sense of community." Swallowing whole Lenin's economic theory of imperialism, M2M has chosen foreign policy as its battle grounds. SDS too abhors the Viet Nam war, but eschews Leninist formulations in favor of sentimental, if telling, analogies between the Asian peasant and the Mississippi sharecropper. M2M reverses the analogy, viewing the Negro as an incidental victim of the same capitalist power which crushes the Viet Cong. The difference is crucial in theory and could become so in practice...
...Times "is much more consistent and regular on its reporting in China than European papers like Le Monde," said John M. Lindbeck, associate director of the East Asian Research Center. In the Midle East, said Nadav Safran, assistant professor of Government, "the Times is doing a terrific...
...Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew last week dispatched his foreign minister, Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, on the nonaligned nations' diplomatic equivalent of the American Express Co.'s basic budget tour: the United Nations (to plead for admission), London, Moscow, and a modest selection of Eastern European and Afro-Asian capitals...
...professor of Oriental studies at the University of Geneva. The author's learning is formidable and his style a pleasure, but even after 40 years of study, he cannot quite manage to see the elephant whole. The book is a brilliant essay on the traditions and temperament of Asian man, but Dr. Herbert has almost nothing to say about what has happened to those traditions and that temperament in the last 20 years. However, the reader who has foreground but lacks background will be grateful for this vigorous and informative encapsulation of a continent...