Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most major showdowns between regional aspirations and national pride, nationalism usually triumphs. An exception took place at last week's meeting in Djakarta of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, made up of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore. Their promising, year-old political and economic association was bedeviled by the nastiest neighborhood dispute between two ASEAN members since Indonesia's konfrontasi with Malaysia ended in 1966. Encouragingly, regionalism came...
...Philippines, the Manila government claims that the original agreement merely leased Sabah to the British instead of ceding it. Last month, talks in Bangkok broke down, and Manila threatened to withdraw its ambassador to Kuala Lumpur, a rupture that could have scuttled ASEAN as a promising vessel for Southeast Asian cooperation...
That does not seem likely, since ASEAN has grown in importance over the last year for all five of its member nations. Both the British decision to withdraw its forces east of Suez and the Paris peace talks have sharply altered Asian horizons. "Ultimately," as Ramos put it, "we have got to rely on our own resources and energies to protect our lives and our fortunes." ASEAN clearly could evolve into one means to that common...
...plan for peace in Viet Nam that calls for a pullback by North Vietnamese forces toward the Demilitarized Zone, Cambodia and Laos, coupled with a withdrawal by U.S. forces from such remote areas as the Central Highlands and a shift into heavily populated areas. A peace-keeping force, "Asian, if possible," would then be positioned between the two forces as a "security buffer," to be followed by the gradual withdrawal from Viet Nam of all foreign forces. Rockefeller's plan then calls for free elections, the results of which he would presumably accept even if the Communists...
...occurred last September. At such strategic spots as the 14,140-ft. Natu Pass, linking the Indian protectorate of Sikkim to Chinese-held Tibet, the two sides are literally at bayonet point, patrolling within sight and sound of each other on opposite sides of a single strand of wire. Asian-style politesse prevails in the low-key propaganda war at Natu Pass. Indian loudspeakers kick off daily with news and propaganda in Mandarin Chinese at 5:30 a.m. The Chinese speakers reply in somewhat stilted classical Hindi, which most jawans do not understand, from 6:30 to 11. Then...