Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faded. Since her marriage, the senior princess has drawn heavy criticism for shirking her royal duties while drawing a $42,000 yearly stipend from the government. Alexandra, unsubsidized and unstuffy, has filled the vacuum with easy dignity and endearing warmth. On her first, grueling tour of ten Southeast Asian nations, she delighted her native hosts at a state banquet in Hong Kong by proposing the toast in their language-and then confessing in a loud aside: "I'm practicing Chinese in the bath...
...counter the disintegration in Laos last week were largely diplomatic. In London, British Foreign Secretary Lord Home called on Russia-co-administrator with Britain of the Geneva accords-to sign a joint appeal that the feuding forces in Laos end their fighting. Fearful that such peace talk would nudge Asian Communist revolutionaries still closer to rival Red China and its "hard line," Russia refused, unless the statement specifically blamed the U.S. for undermining the peace in Laos. Britain vetoed the suggestion...
Happy, Not Mighty. Unlike most other new Asian leaders, Abdul Rahman is no rabid nationalist. He has remained on close, friendly terms with the British, has no interest in pie-in-the-sky economic schemes. His political aims are simple: "Food instead of bullets, clothing instead of uniforms, houses instead of barracks.'' His new nation has a combat army of only seven battalions and an air force so small that the pilots often have trouble finding a fourth for bridge. "My ambition is not mighty Malaysia," says Abdul Rahman, "but happy Malaysia...
...between Abdul Rahman and Philippines President Diosdado Macapagal. The Tunku was anxious for the whole matter to be settled quietly. In an attempt to be reasonable and friendly with his "Malay brothers," he agreed to look into the Filipino claim to North Borneo, lukewarmly endorsed a proposal for an Asian summit meeting between himself, Macapagal, and Indonesia's Sukarno. But the Tunku vetoed the suggestion that he postpone the creation of Malaysia until some settlement could be reached; the federation, he said, would come into being by Aug. 31 as planned...
...ttingen Manifesto"-a high-level protest by 18 nuclear scientists against arming West German forces with atomic weapons. To this spirit of dissent, Göttingen adds West Germany's best mathematics institute, its biggest university library and largest agricultural faculty. So many Afro-Asian students now go there that the town's toy shops stock Negro dolls...