Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress and an attempt was made to gather all the proliferating economic and military assistance plans into one coordinated program. So many administrators came and went that nothing really got coordinated; 2,000 steel plows lay rusting in Ethiopia, dams were built in a remote corner of Afghanistan, Asian potentates had fleets of cars bought with aid funds. This phase began to end in 1957 when President Eisenhower shifted the major emphasis of foreign aid from outright grants to development loans and investments. President Kennedy in 1961 created the Agency for International Development (AID) as a kind of holding company...
Despite hints by Formosa, which still has the third largest army in Asia (400,000 men), Ky was not after troops for his embattled nation, sought instead economic and technical aid and−most important−the psychological support of other Asian countries. To these limited aims, the Nationalist Chinese and Thais responded enthusiastically. Ky was so satisfied with his first round of image-building abroad that he will make more trips in September. Next stops: the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea...
Faced with this fact last week was Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was on an urgent mission to Ghana hoping to clear the way for the grandest conference of all, an Afro-Asian wingding. The affair, originally scheduled for Algiers in June, had to be postponed until Nov. 5 because of the overthrow of Ahmed ben Bella. But shortly after the new date had been set, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah suddenly put off his own spectacular−the 36-nation Organization of African Unity summit until Oct. 21, which was so close to the Algiers summit that many...
...years ago, Britain helped lash together a sprawl of Asian real estate into a federation called Malaysia. It was born in the high hope of providing economic unity, political stability, and a bulwark against expansion by Red China or Indonesia. But there was a fatal flaw that doomed the scheme from the start. Last week Singapore, fifth largest port in the world, broke away, and once again a British-backed regional federation was in tatters.- The flaw was a clash of peoples, of religions, of languages, of cultures. Put in the simplest terms, the Malays-largely rural, uneducated and unenterprising...
Everywhere, Red China cynically exploits racism to the detriment not only of the Western powers, but also of the Russians, who are increasingly on the defensive in Asia. But racial feeling also works against China, for many Asians have a centuries-old fear of the Chinese and it is at least as strong as their anti-white prejudice. The greatest threat Peking holds over its Asian neighbors is its army-2,500,000 infantrymen, a 12-million-man militia-which could inundate the continent if all its subversive stratagems should fail. That is why Viet Nam is the ultimate test...