Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...request for $697,000 to run his committee for the next two years. Powell, as usual, was not in Washington. He had last been noted there on Feb. 26, when he bounced into a subcommittee meeting with a complaining quip: "I shouldn't be here. I have the Asian flu-or should I call it the Afro-Asian flu?" With Powell away, the House Administration Committee recommended that Powell should not have a two-year allotment at all. It would give him just $200,000 for the first year-a cut of some 40%. He would have to come...
Reischauer also served in the State Department's bureau of Far Eastern affairs before returning to Harvard. From 1956 to 1961 he served as professor of Far Eastern History and was director of the East Asian Research Center...
Before his appointment, Reischauer was a strong critic of American policy in the Far East. In Wanted: An Asian Policy (1955) he called developments in U.S.-Asian relations "profoundly disturbing and extremely dangerous," and called for several changes in American policy, including recognition of Communist China...
...neutrality" with grave misgivings, a four-man Senate study group under Majority Leader Mike Mansfield last week questioned the whole range and shape of U.S. aid programs to Southeast Asia. The group's report called for "a thorough reassessment of our own overall security requirements on the Southeast Asian mainland...
...have made a more creditable showing against the Chinese. Grumbled one: "This is a high price to pay for Ladakh-even assuming we do get it back." But most Indians closed ranks behind Desai. Said one government official: "The budget is the clearest answer yet given by an Asian democracy to Communist expansion...