Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement was signed by Jerome A. Cohen, professor of Law, John K. Fairbank, Director of the East Asian Research Center, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History and Government, and James C. Thomson Jr., assistant professor of History. It appears in the New York Times today...
Donald Stevens, vice president of the Olympic Council of Malaysia, explained the feelings behind the resolution--the Olympics are so completely dominated by white nations, he said, that the IOC felt it could ignore the wishes of African and Asian nations by readmitting South Africa to the Games...
Deeply Disturbed. Even though non-whites account for only 2% of Britain's population, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Laborites bowed to mounting public pressure and rammed emergency legislation through Parliament to shut off the flood of Asians from East Africa. The British have become increasingly concerned about the thousands of Asians entering the country each month (v. only about 500 a month in former years) as a result of Kenya's intensified job and economic discrimination against them. Under the new law, Britain will admit a fixed total of 1,500 Asian household heads a year...
...Chamber of Commerce. North Korea and North Viet Nam are not expected to show because they fear losing Chinese aid and diplomatic support. Cuba's Fidel Castro is not sending anyone because he bristles at Moscow's conservative line in Latin America. Among the Asian parties that are staying away are the Japanese, who are hoping for a rapprochement between their party and China. Revisionist Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, who broke with the Cominform in 1948, was not even invited. Neither were the Burmese, Thai, Malaysian and Indonesian Communists, probably as punishment for their closeness with China...
Both of these arguments are at least debateable. If Senators Fulbright (D-Ark.) and Kennedy (D-N.Y.) are right, the U.S. could make substantial reductions in the scope and nature of its Asian commitments without seriously endangering the country's security. Similarly, it is not at all obvious that American security and well-being depend on the incessant production of more and more modern missiles...