Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before being physically ousted-described the proceedings as "irresponsible exercises in frivolity and personal and international theatrics." Gordon McLendon, 45, owner of stations in several U.S. cities, and Donald Burden, 38, president of Star Stations of Omaha, charged that the heavy publicity accorded the trial in many European and Asian newspapers would contribute immeasurably to world misunderstanding of the war and give Ho Chi Minh a mistaken idea of world support. The tribunal, said McLendon, was "a kangaroo court conducted by Communists for Communists." A measure of the witnesses' integrity was that three of them accused...
...stifling dissent now any more than it did in the past. Rusk's words could have been used by President McKinley during the so-called Philippine Insurrection at the turn of the century, when 70,000 U.S. troops sought to "Christianize" Aguinaldo's guerrillas, and safeguard U.S.-Asian commerce in the process. Home-front critics of that war included Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, and ex-Presidents Harrison and Cleveland. A Negro editor called it "a sinful extravagance to waste our civilizing influence upon the unappreciative Filipinos when it is so badly needed right here in Arkansas...
...Secretary of State Dean Rusk, businessmen and Chinese communities from Cape Kennedy to San Francisco. Remarkably, he seeks no financial handouts of any sort. But, he admits in a modest way, he would indeed be pleased by recognition of the dramatic fact that Taiwan has become a model for Asian economic development...
...biggest advantage is inexpensive labor. Minimum-wage laws require only $11 a month for unskilled labor, while skilled workers get up to $70 or $80. The rates are only one-third as high as wage levels in Japan and half those in Hong Kong. As a result, several Asian companies have moved operations from those areas to Taiwan. U.S. firms have invested $110 million in Taiwan enterprises. Union Carbide is building an $8,300,000 plastics plant in the Kaohsiung petrochemical complex. RCA last week announced that it will build a $2,500,000 factory to make computer parts...
Speaking at Sanders Theatre will be John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics; John K. Fairbank '29, director of the East Asian Research Center; Stanley H. Hoffman, professor of Government; and Jerome A. Cohen, professor...