Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facts of the White Paper distort the reality, the liberal says, it is distortion in the good cause of holding Vietnam. And better to hold here, where the peninsula may still be defended, than to fall back to positions which will again be made untenable. If the Asian peninsula falls to the Chinese, the liberal argues, Japan and India might reconsider their relations with a power whose influence is waning in the East. Those are the real stakes, for which the liberal is willing to bear an extremely dirty war in Vietnam...
Letkiss has already been blasted from the pulpit in Munich, and because of an incipient Asian-flu epidemic in Europe, has been denounced by doctors as a germ-spreading menace. Even the amateur sociologists have weighed in. "Now the solitary dancer, surrendering entirely to the beat, communes not only with the partner but with the entire group of revelers," says Dance Instructor Gertrude Schmidt. "Letkiss culminates in the kind of intimacy that previously would have shocked everyone...
...Question of Patience. Letting go -either with all its force or through withdrawal-is clearly not the answer to America's Asian dilemma. No one relishes the risks involved in the var ious options available to the U.S. But to maintain its position in Southeast Asia, and ultimately perhaps in all Asia, the U.S. may sooner or later have to take the risk of war with China-care ful and calculated but still a risk. The U.S. held on to West Berlin and ejected Soviet missiles from Cuba only by a calculated risk of war with the Soviet Union...
...human sea" at tacks. The other side holds that, like Russia and the satellites with whom the West has learned to live, Chinese Communists will in time grow softer, more reasonable. They may, although European Communism, superimposed on viable economies and workable political structures, is vastly different from the Asian variety. What is at stake in Asia is an undeveloped, politically shapeless region full of people who deserve better than the absence of chrysanthemums...
...free societies, even if socialist concessions have to be made. Malaysia and Thailand represent viable, hopeful alternatives to Tibet and Burma. In the meantime, the U.S. must hang on-and then hang on some more-in Southeast Asia. The operative word is patience, and essentially, patience is an Asian word...