Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Panchen Lama, on whom so many Communist hopes had been pinned. Last week the Panchen was not only out of his job in the Red Chinese parliament, but had been stripped of his Tibetan chairmanship as well and forced to confess "antipeople, anti-state and anti-socialist activities." To Asian Buddhists, many of whom nurture the illusion that they can cope with the Communists, the Panchen's fate was fair warning that toleration of local religions lasts only so long as it serves Marxist ends...
With regard to Vietnam, Sidey quoted Johnson as having said, "I'm not going to have American boys fight Asian wars... Why should we fight, when one man can walk into Saigon and depose the government?" Sidey attributed the President's reluctance to extend the Asian war in part to his awe of Red China...
...International Studies building will house the Center for International Affairs, some programs of the Graduate School of Public Administration, the Russian Research Center, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for East Asian Studies, the program of Latin American Studies, and related reference libraries and research collections. No date has been set for construction...
...TIME stated that "Cambodia is virtually a Peking satellite. Prince Sihanouk is openly aiding the Communist guerrillas in Viet Nam by providing them sanctuary" [Nov. 13]. It is clear that, in your opinion, any Asian country that rejects invasion by your armed forces and your ridiculous military bases can only be a satellite of China. The Viet Cong guerrillas have no need of Cambodia as a "sanctuary," where they have never been tolerated. Though your forces may control the towns of South Viet Nam, almost the whole of the rest of the country is in the hands of the guerrillas...
Daily Serenade. Composer Cowell, 67, one of the most prolific (more than 1,000 works, including 19 symphonies) of all modern composers, is a lifelong student and frequent composer of Asian music, has long ranked as the leading exponent of integrating Western and Eastern music, a cause that has attracted the interest of a host of modern composers such as Alan Hovhannes, Benjamin Britten, Lou Harrison, Colin McPhee, Pierre Boulez. Says Cowell: "No single inherited style, no single acquired technique, will enable a composer to live in the 20th century. We must integrate...