Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agree that the government intends to expand the war against Vietnam into an all-Asian land war. The war has, in fact, already been expanded, inside Vietnam to the important Mekong Delta, and, outside Vietnam into Laos and Thailand. Moreover, armed struggles are developing in Indonesia and the Phillipines...
...farm leaders last week, "all the king's horses and all the king's men are not going to move us out of our position." Moreover, United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg pointed out on the eve of his departure on a presumed peace mission to five Asian capitals, including Saigon: "We do not ask our adversaries to accept, as a precondition to discussions or negotiations, any point of ours to which they may have objections...
...test, as for so many public officials these days, was Viet Nam. For months Romney has declined to take a definite stance, asking time for deep study of the problem that will include an Asian tour later this year (he first visited Viet Nam in 1965). Fair enough. But last week, with the conclusion of his ruminations still far off, Romney began to claw at Lyndon Johnson's Viet Nam policy without offering a hint of possible alternatives...
...bombing of North Viet Nam, he said, had failed to accomplish its objectives. Does he want to stop the bombing? "No comment." As a general proposition, he argued that the U.S. should never have got into an Asian land war. "But now we must see it through honorably" by attempting to "establish a South Vietnamese government that would not be supported by forces outside South Viet...
...minute he arrives in town, the farmer (Anthony Quinn) suffers the first assault on his indomitable optimism. On orders from the local chief of police (Gregoire Asian), who would like to tear up the mazere patch with the farmer's wife (Virna Lisi), the grinning lout is arrested and shipped off to a labor camp for Jews. "But I am not a Jew," he protests. "My son," an old Jew replies gently, "we live in a world where any human being can become a Jew at any moment." That seems to satisfy this pea-brained pollyanna, who is blissfully...