Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keeping with the Review's official policy, the University community has supplied the material for most of the issue. Theoretically, this material, coming as it does from such a fertile intellectual source, should contain the fresh viewpoints of active researchers or policymakers. But for Harvard East Asian scholars travel to the Chinese mainland remains a forbidden luxury. Perhaps the staleness of the Review's issue on China comes primarily from the second-hand quality of most of its articles...
...analysis of mainland China's economic fluctuations. Perkins points out that China's growth, although erratic, has been substantial. But by treating China's present economy in test tube isolation, he fails to classify just what his "substantial" means. There is little sense of China's progress relative to Asian countries or even to pre-revolutionary days...
...only disappointment for Kaunda was that U.N.l.P.'s European and Asian candidates failed to win any of the ten legislative seats reserved for non-Africans. They went instead to an all-white slate entered by the National Progress Party, headed by John Roberts, a former minister in a previous, European-dominated government, who predicted nonetheless: "Dr. Kaunda's Cabinet will be a very able one, probably the best in black Africa...
...consulting at all on the China question, there was small reason to celebrate the anniversary. The Bundestag erupted in angry debate about the pact, and Bonn's Minister for Special Tasks Heinrich Krone journeyed to Paris for a somewhat perfunctory observation of the date. De Gaulle's Asian adventure dismayed the overwhelming majority of South Viet Nam's 7,000 strongly anti-Communist overseas Frenchmen, who called it "une folie de grandeur." Even France's former colonies in Africa, which usually give Paris solid diplomatic backing, were split. Said Madagascar's President Philibert Tsiranana, echoing...
...confident that the Asian countries concerned will find a peaceful solution to the differences that now separate them...