Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a gloomy mood in South east Asia these days that has nothing to do with the problems of Viet Nam. The trouble has to do with family quarrels in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The group is a promising experiment in political and economic cooperation, but today four of its five members find themselves involved in bitter nationalistic disputes. Malaysia and the Philippines are squabbling over Sabah, a small state in Borneo that now belongs to Malaysia but is claimed by the Philippines. Indonesia and Singapore are at odds over the Singapore government's execution...
...divisive issues of the day?the baffling war in Viet Nam, the Negro's bitter contest for his rights?take much of their heat from the national refusal to entertain the mere possibility of defeat. Why can't the world's mightiest military power vanquish a tiny and underdeveloped Asian state? Why does it suffer a humiliating act of piracy by the North Koreans? Why don't the cops just go in there and re-establish law and order...
...cool and dapper man whose accent combines his Asian birth and his English education at Cambridge, arived here from Canada and lunched at Eliot House, where he will live while here. He expressed no qualms at his prolonged absence from Singapore because "it's fairly tranquil there right...
...distribution list for cable traffic from Paris and Saigon was trimmed even further. At the end, the club that had access to the cables included only five men in Foggy Bottom: Rusk and Benjamin Reed, Executive Secretary of the State Department; William Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and his aide, Hay ward Isham; and Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach. Not even these precautions were considered entirely reliable when particularly touchy issues were involved. At such times, scrambler telephones and even couriers were used in preference to cables...
...Hundreds more paraded in front of 20 of the city's 79 precinct stations. Until their union ended the practice at week's end, as many as 3,000 men, one-fifth of the force scheduled for duty, reported "sick" each day with a fictitious strain of Asian flu. Cops on duty watched benignly as motorists left their cars in bus stops and no-parking zones. Minor complaints were simply ignored, and traffic became badly snarled. Possibly worst of all was the damage done to the conception of law and order, as "New York's Finest" sneered...