Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Sihanouk has been demanding for weeks is a 14-nation conference, preferably at Geneva, representing the major powers and his Southeast Asian neighbors, to guarantee Cambodian neutrality and settle some local border disputes. At various times, he announced he would (and would not) settle for a four-power meeting instead; proposed (and called off) two-power talks directly with South Viet Nam; set a deadline (and postponed it) for the convening of the 14-power conference; berated the U.S. and Britain for dragging their feet on the conference proposal. The U.S. opposes a large conference mostly because the Communists...
...There seem to be four choices, all, in varying degrees, painful: > Withdraw under some sort of agreement to "neutralize" the country. Secretary of State Dean Rusk has described this as "a formula for surrender." But since Charles de Gaulle proposed "a possible neutrality agreement relating to the Southeast Asian States," others have begun to espouse the idea. Said Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield last week: "We have teetered for too long on the brink of turning the war in Viet Nam, which is still a Vietnamese war, into an American war to be paid for primarily with American lives. There...
...KASHMIR, but if they were intended to prod Chou into a public expression of support against India, they failed. The two leaders toasted each other with gold-edged crystal goblets, were served by a retinue of turbaned, white-clad waiters, and exchanged platitudes about peace, friendship and Afro-Asian unity...
Though seven African nations signed up for an anti-imperialist "Second Bandung Conference" of Afro-Asian governments, touted by Chou, he failed notably to sow the seeds of Red China's virulent anti-Americanism. This failure was most pointed in Guinea. When Chou attacked the U.S. position in Panama, he was disappointed to find Sekou...
Additional articles deal with mainland China's influence on other Asian countries. Philip W. Moore III '64, except for a few lapses into cliches like the "un-clever" Thais and the "wily" Chinese, writes skilfully about the overseas Chines in Thailand. Such Chinese control the commerce of most of Southeast Asia, although many of them support the mainland regime...