Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...posture on the battlefield and at the negotiating table, compelling the U.S. to consider slowing down its withdrawal-difficult though that may be. Beyond Viet Nam, Moscow quietly concedes Southeast Asia as a Chinese sphere of influence. Peking steps up subversion and support of local Communist insurgent movements. Unless Asian nations coordinate their defenses, perhaps in a regional pact extending from Korea to Pakistan, they eventually confront a painful choice: 1) accommodation with Peking, or 2) greater military and economic reliance on the West...
...Most Asian societies take a love-and-let-love attitude toward sex, as long as it is kept private. The trouble is that younger Asians, anxious to keep up with the latest fads flowing from Manhattan and London, have gone public. India's debate, for example, was set off when a government censorship commission recommended that "if in telling a story it is relevant to depict a passionate kiss or a nude figure," moviemakers should do so. After all, the commission noted, Indian directors never hesitate to feature bump-and-grind girly dances so provocative that they "may almost...
...thick as the one for all of Laos. Of the more than 2,100 Americans (including dependents) now stationed in Laos, most live in all-American compounds outside Vientiane and very much out of sight. The largest is KM6 (six kilometers from town), a U.S. suburb transplanted to Asian soil. There American families live in two-and four-bedroom ranch-style houses laid out with barbecue pits and with swings, ponies and bicycles on their grassy lawns. KM6 has its own electric power generators, water supply and sewage system, plus tennis courts and a 450-student school...
Departing November 1. Wallace will tour several Southeast Asian countries as part of "an information-gathering trip...
TODAYS Vietnam Moratorium should mark the beginning of a mass movement to achieve one simple objective: the immediate withdrawal of all United States military and financial support from the existing governments of the Southeast Asian mainland...