Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students delayed mailing the letter--first because of the President's Asian trip, then the elections, and the President's subsequent illness. ("We didn't want it to look like an election gimmick," says Miss Erdmann...
...number fewer than 100, they represent another indicator of Sato's outward thrust. Stationed from Southeast Asia to East Africa, they are skilled in auto repair and agriculture, nursing and nutrition, use their spare time to teach such Japanese native skills as origami and karate. Despite their Asian eyes and skin color, the Japanese Peace Corpsmen find it as challenging to relate to underdeveloped Asia as do their round-eyed American counterparts. For all their own appetite for sashimi (raw fish) and sea urchin's eggs, they have difficulty stomaching such delicacies as Philippine balut, an embryonic duck...
...trains moving. Twice he was sent to China as a railways adviser during the Japanese war there, and during World War II served as director of a motor pool. He also contracted a serious case of typhus, and while recuperating read an article on the passivity of the Asian masses by U.S. Author Pearl Buck that changed his way of thinking. "Reviewing the past of Japan," he says, "I felt there had been something essentially wrong about our approach to government. It was vitally important for me to know just what the masses aspire to and think; very important...
...Buddhist-backed Soka Gakkai (Value-Creation Society), led by piously political Daisaku Ikeda, 38, Komeito attracts the new Japanese: city dwellers who have lost contact with the ward-oriented politics of their rural home towns. Komeito calls for a cleanup in the wheeling and dealing typical of Asian government. Since Japan is fated, for better or worse, to a continuing urban growth and a growing urban malaise, it is mass parties of the Komeito brand that will doubtless dictate Japan's political future...
...angels" in the fight against Communism-but who really feels this way? Fulbright argues convincingly that Communism is no longer entirely evil-but that is a fact most Americans grasped nearly a decade ago. He glooms on and on about the high moral and material cost of the Southeast Asian war, yet fails to point out the considerable gains the American stand has already helped to produce: a realigned Indonesia, a bolder Burma, a convulsion within China itself...