Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia Foundation supports Asian schools, libraries, and other educational projects. Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, said that the foundation is doing an "excellent job, better than anyone else, in promoting healthy intellectual relations between the U.S. and Asia...
...Guns & Water Pipes. In the early years of the war, the Viet Cong relied on whatever they could get-ancient weapons left over from other Asian wars, captured American or South Vietnamese arms, even crude homemade zip guns. Rifles were fashioned out of old bicycle parts; a water pipe frequently became a mortar. Then Soviet and Red Chinese arms began trickling down the Ho Chi Minh trail, and the gradual buildup began. Lately, the buildup has intensified, bringing the Viet Cong an abundance of modern weapons and ammunition. "There is no longer anything ragtag, bobtail or worn out about their...
...article released today in Look Magazine, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and former ambassador to Japan, said that the United States should change its Asian role from leader to "outside friend...
Advising a long term view, Reischauer warned the United States against becoming identified with any particular Asian political regime. In his view, the Vietnamese war is the result of shortsighted decisions made since 1945 in the absence of a concrete Asian policy...
Reischauer stated that the United States has ignored the fact that nationalism stands as the chief barrier to a Communist takeover of Asia. He argued that, instead of working against Asian nationalism, the U.S. should foster it by offering greater economic and technical...