Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Month Early. Surgeon General Stewart's predictions of a major outbreak of the Asian (A2) strain of flu virus were based on the cyclical and somewhat self-defeating nature of the disease-those infected one year are usually immune to the virus the next. The more infected, the more who become immune. Last winter the flu was strongest in the Western states, while the East, which went through its last major outbreak two winters ago, suffered relatively little. Immunity to influenza viruses built up west of the Rockies and dwindled elsewhere...
...spread to eight other states, creeping as far south as Florida. In one Alabama county, 7,000 persons went to their doctors with flulike symptoms. In Ohio, 40% of the students at one school were absent. Still, U.S. health officials refused to blame the wave of illness specifically on Asian flu. Weeks of lab testing are necessary before flu viruses can be isolated and identified. And the symptoms of Asian flu-three to four days of fever, coughing, sore throat, aches and pains-are also indicative of any number of respiratory infections...
...goes on in North Vietnam. Greene is a British subject (a cousin of the novelist Graham Greene) who has lived in the United States for the past two decades. Since he made his first trip to China in 1956, he has had a rare entre into the world of Asian Communism. He and Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett seem to have cornered the market for providing the "other side" of the story to the West. It makes for interesting education...
...fourteen "leading scholars," including two from Harvard, about American policies in Asia. To see Professor Handlin's signature on this document was hardly surprising, as his position on the war is well known; we were surprised only to find that he has now been elevated to the rank of "Asian scholar"--at least in the eyes of the New York Times. The case of Professor Reischauer, however, troubles us more deeply. It is true that the statement warns that not all its signers accept all its provisions. Still, Professor Reischauer has lent his considerable prestige to a position that seems...
...Viet Nam has already spread in a certain fashion, to at least three other Southeast Asian nations. The Communists have been freely using both Laos and Cambodia as supply depots and sanctuaries for their troops, and in Thailand they have been support ng an insurgency in the Northeast aimed both at harassing the Thais and distracting the U.S., which uses six Thai airbases to launch raids against North Viet...