Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pinpoint Precision. Coolness is still one of the man's most notable characteristics. Last week, as the Asian crisis bore down on him, Admiral Grant Sharp, now 58, well-decorated and as slender and hard as a torpedo (5 ft. 7 in., 147 Ibs.), described his activities and explained imperturbably: "These things are all thought out ahead of time. It is the culmination of a lot of planning, and the actual execution is fairly simple." True enough. But had he executed his orders with anything less than pinpoint precision, Sharp could well have triggered a disaster...
Representatives of five Asian countries focused their attention on the threat of Chinese communism in the whole of Southeast Asia. Lee pointed out the far reaching significance of the Vietnam war when he added. "We appeal to the conscience of the American people to realize and their moral duty to re-unify Korea and Vietnam. We owe this to the men who have given their lives for freedom." Lee noted that 35,000 American soldiers were killed in Korea, but Korea is a still divided, and Chinese still occupy North Korea. "The mistaken in Korea should not be repeated...
Carmelo Quintero, of the Philippines, stressed that the problem of Vietnam is Red China. The crucial decision for the United States, he explained, was "what it will permit Red China to do it." If the United States and Southeast Asian countries "make an agreement with Russia," he felt that China can be prevented from maintaining the nuclear weapons it will surely otherwise have in the near future...
Australia's policy of excluding Asians, which has long irritated its up over neighbors, does not extend to Asian currency. With Australian exports to Asia up by 300% since 1959, money is flowing down under where immigration cannot. During the first ten months of fiscal 1963, reported the Australian government, the value of Aussie goods exported to Asia rose to $855 million, exceeding 1962's record-breaking total of $778 million. So far in 1964, Japan for the first time has displaced Britain as Australia's No. 1 customer, and Red China is buying more than...
...surge in exports to Asia is largely the work of Australia's imaginative, Canberra-backed industrial and commercial associations and an army of tropical-suited Australian salesmen, who tout their goods in every Asian bazaar...