Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peasants were poor by our standards and poor enough by their own standards to be good targets for propaganda from the North. By Asian standards they were well off. Their crops were bountiful. The maximum interest rate allowed by Diem's hard-to-enforce laws was 25 percent, only one-quarter to one-eighth that generally charged in the prosperous Philippines. The May 2nd Committee has remarked that when this rate was set, many landlords raised their rents to this figure. This is true. But in the context of South-east Asia it is almost incredible that the rates would...
Could Moscow possibly back away from the Khrushchevian line of "peaceful coexistence" and espouse the militant "permanent war" cause of Peking? Could any Russian really be tempted to join an Asian fight-particularly when his Asian rival was encroaching on his own borders? Kosygin was in an embarrassing situation, and he had to salvage what he could. Skidding along a slippery slope but determined to keep the Soviet Union from plunging over the precipice, the Soviet leader slid stolidly forth...
Kosygin did not openly promise aid, but he hit the unity theme while agreeing with Kim that "imperialist provocations" had brought all Communists closer together, added pointedly that Asian Communists are "unanimous in their desire to support the heroic peoples of Viet Nam." As if to tell the West that Kosygin meant business, Moscow put out rumors that Russia was "angry and worried" over the U.S. moves in Viet Nam and even raised the possibility that Moscow might send Soviet pilots to fly the jets it was giving to Hanoi...
...which appeared in the CRIMSON on Wed., Feb. 10, 1965, in response to a leaflet distributed by the May 2nd committee on Mon., Feb. 8, contains several false assertions. To begin with, the committee's leaflet stated that "... Eisenhower remarks in his memoirs that there was no Southeast Asian expert he knew who was not certain Ho Chi Minh would have won a general national election." Mr. Overholt read this as "none of our experts were certain that Ho Chi Minh would have won." We refer him to page 372 of Mandate for Change...
...station. Taking over the microphone, Bounleut broadcast a demand for a shake-up in the rightist high command, which the Sananikones interpreted as an attempt at a Phoumi comeback. When Bounleut's troops blossomed out with blue neckerchiefs, Kouprasith's forces replied by donning yellow ones (most Asian armies are well supplied with colored kerchiefs, which are used as identifying insignia for the various battalions...