Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Stakes." There were, he noted, "great stakes in the balance. Most of the non-Communist nations of Asia cannot, by themselves and alone, resist the growing might and the grasping ambition of Asian Communism. Our power therefore is a very vital shield. If we are driven from the field in Viet Nam, then no nation can ever again have the same confidence in American promise or in American protection...
Such problems pale before those faced by priests struggling to find an acceptable translation of the Latin into African and Asian tongues. The Yoruba language of West Africa, for example, has no word for priest or church. "Our language is so poor in words," says Father J. S. Adeneye of Nigeria, "that I can hardly prepare my sermon." In Japan, translators face the problem of dealing with a language that rarely uses pronouns and has a surplus of honorifics. Instead of Dominus vobiscum (The Lord be with you), the priest now vaguely says to the congregation, "The Lord be together...
...Raymond A. Hare, 64, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, to succeed Phillips Talbot as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. Talbot will become U.S. Ambassador to Greece, replacing Henry R. Labouisse, who resigned last March to become director of the United Nations Children's Fund...
...developing new agricultural land, but the million who have been forcibly moved complain of ghosts and malaria. This year North Viet Nam will fall 2,500,000 tons short of its programmed rice-production level, forcing the people to eat corn, millet and manioc-hardly favorites of the Asian palate...
Many business and government leaders today fear that Australia's beneficent role as a major Asian power could be seriously diminished if other democratic nations such as Japan-which has now replaced Britain as Australia's biggest trading partner-come to resent the all-white continent as a racist preserve-which it is not. Declares Melbourne Mining Tycoon Sir Maurice Mawby: "We must live by geography today, not history...