Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these last years on matters ranging from air attacks on Asian villages to the testimonial contributions of the CIA to the organizations it favors, we have heard the argument that in this world we must be brutal and immoral too. This argument has a great appeal to conservatives--provided, as Barry Goldwater urged, the money is spread around--but a great many liberals have seized upon it as an opportunity for escape from the unnatural constraints of virtue. In the liberal soul too there lurks a little of the late James Bond, coupled perhaps with a few of the more...
...resistance to any form of idealism they accomplish such an infinity of mischief. We have yet to recapture momentum in our aid to underdeveloped countries. But in the last two years, and not, I trust without some knowledge of the problem, I have watched the policy toward the South Asian subcontinent with nearly complete approval...
...outpaced any other in Asia, and is now dispensing foreign aid itself. Despite perennial corruption, the Philippines has established itself as a vigorous and functioning democracy, sufficiently secure to be increasingly assertive in its relations with the U.S., and to become a leader in organizing such inter-Asian regional enterprises as the Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC) and the Asian Development Bank. Taiwan, once cited as the supreme example of an economy artificially supported by outside (U.S.) aid, cut loose from all U.S. economic aid more than a year ago and is now sending technicians...
...other Asian economies are less thriving, most are reversing the downward spiral. Indonesia, having bloodily saved itself from Communist takeover, now has to repair the intrinsically rich economy that Sukarno wrecked. Malaysia may yet fragment into its original pieces, but at least it has been relieved of the huge burden imposed by Indonesia's harassing little war. Prosperous Australia and New Zealand, though far to the south, now firmly consider themselves-and are accepted by Asians-as a part of Asia, and take a major hand in Asian councils. A U.S. observer summarizes: "The Asians are not thrashing around...
...were beginning to change their views. Cambodia's Chief of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who three years ago had fervently welcomed China's embrace while reviling U.S. "imperialism," recently reassured Australian diplomats that he welcomes the U.S. presence in Southeast Asia as a counterweight to Peking. Other Asian leaders have made the same point...