Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tone for the conversation by describing a recent meeting with a Pakistani health official. "We could learn a great deal from those people," he began, his inflection reminding us that an honest person gives credit where it is due, even if he must praise an off-colored Asian tribe. "Do you know that their men and women never meet until they have to get married? Their society has no problems of immorality...
...deeply ravined semijungle of Hawaii's Koolau Mountains, some 4,500 G.I.s recently pretended that they had been asked to help a Southeast Asian nation beat back insurgents and bolster a friendly government. The training involved as much diplomacy as fighting, required the soldiers to heed imagined local customs, such as the fact that "it is forbidden to cut the hair on Wednesday or to wash the hair on Thursday" (baldheaded soldiers were warned that by some native superstition, they would be considered ''bearers of pestilence and plague"). Then G.I.s taught the "natives...
Heartbreak at Home. Since 1950, when South Africa's Population Registration Act was passed to reinforce Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's "granite" apartheid policy, faceless inquisitors have been methodically dividing the entire population into neatly labeled groups: black, white, Asian and Colored. Designed to prevent racial "contamination" of the nation's 3,000,000 whites, the law gave the government power to list names, ancestry and accepted skin color of South Africa's 16 million citizens. In the process of compiling these human pedigrees, pigmentation commissars have reclassified thousands of dark-skinned Coloreds as blacks, thus...
...sovereignty and independence, and in so doing they are defending the cause of the black peoples," said Chalmers. "The independence of the only black nation in America must be safeguarded." The Russians used the occasion to work up anti-Yankee propaganda, but Haiti's appeal to the Afro-Asian bloc fell flat, and the Security Council bucked the issue back to the Organization of American States. The OAS voted to send a second peacemaking group to Hispaniola with a broader mandate to keep peace on the explosive island and pressed Haiti to guarantee the safety of opposition Haitians. Under...
...Ceylonese navy officers-the cream of the top naval leadership-of conspiring to smuggle a treasure-trove of contraband into the country. Chief among them is the former naval chief of staff, Rear Admiral Royce de Mel, 47. When he sailed grandly home from a 1960 goodwill cruise in Asian waters, the commission charged, the magazines of De Mel's flagship and an escorting frigate had been loaded with some $10,000 worth of bounty bought in duty-free ports. Main source was Singapore, where De Mel's bluejackets had joyously laid in 100 cases of Grant...