Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newsmen that he had disagreed with the invasion plans. For that mixture of indiscretion and disloyalty. Kennedy dropped Bowles from his No. 2 post in the State Department and gave him a new job that was long on title-the President's Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian and Latin American Affairs-but short on authority. During his 16 months in this job, Bowles has traveled to 37 countries. At the time of last fall's Cuban crisis, he was in far-off Nigeria, preparing to raise a flag above the U.S. pavilion at an international trade...
...diplomatic cocktail parties, an endless stream of dignitaries strolled up to greet the man who was the focus of everyone's attention. Malaya's stocky, smiling Prime Minister Abdul Rahman. 60. the golf-playing ex-playboy who this summer will bring into being a new Asian nation...
...Abdul Rahman happily took credit for the formation of the Malaysian Federation. As he puts it. "I am the father of Malaysia." Strictly speaking, this is not true; the idea has long been the dream of Asian nationalists enchanted by its economic and political prospects. For years. Britain too has advocated the plan as a neat way to tie up all its remaining Asian colonies (with the exception of Hong Kong) into one tidy independent package. But the Tunku (it means Prince) was the indispensable catalyst without whom Malaysia could not have been achieved. He wooed, bullied and cajoled...
...dictator were hung with garlands of flowers; Tirana newspapers published his picture and babbled their "love and profound respect for his teachings," Red China might also have been expected, to use the occasion to glorify Stalin's memory, but remembering the dictator's open distrust of his Asian comrades, Peking chose not to be hypocritical...
Three years ago, half of the Asian merchants in Uganda's Buganda kingdom were driven out of the country by a wave of ugly violence and a boycott of Asian shops. East Africans were cheered last week by the departure from Mozambique of the last batch of 4,600 Indians deported to their homeland by Portuguese authorities in revenge for India's 1961 takeover of Goa. In Tanganyika, all 6,000 Asian civil servants will lose their jobs as soon as enough Africans can be found to replace them...