Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marco the Magnificent looks great on paper. It has a big budget, seven famous names (Anthony Quinn, Horst Bucholz, Omar Sharif, Elsa Martinelli, Orson Welles, Akim Tamiroff, Gregoire Asian), and a hero who was one of history's great adventurers: Marco Polo. On film, unfortunately, it looks terrible...
...Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Kohler will handle the Department's relations with the C.I.A. and the Defense Department. He does not have the Asian expertise of Ambassador to Japan U. Alexis Johnson; but he has been a widely-praised envoy to the U.S.S.R. in a time of strain and will be hard to replace in that post...
Under the aegis of what the U.S. has already accomplished in Viet Nam, a new Asian cooperativeness is, in fact, already emerging. All told, the free nations of Asia have embarked upon more cooperative action in the past year than ever before in their thousands of years of history. Though often historically at odds, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Viet Nam are working together on joint development of the immense resources of the Mekong River. Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand have set up the Association for Southeast Asia, an economic and social alliance aimed at ultimately achieving a Common Market...
...broader alliance of nine nations, ranging from New Zealand to Japan, recently formed the Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC) for closer cooperation. Nineteen Asian and Pacific nations joined together in December 1965 to participate in the $1 billion Asian Development Bank. Japan and South Korea, ending more than half a century of hostility, last June signed an accord under which Japan will provide $800 million for Korean modernization. Indonesia's new regime last week returned to the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) -another form of Asian togetherness...
...Viet Nam war began, only three have managed to escape.*The problem is not so much one of harsh prison security, as it was for flyers clowned by the Nazis during World War II. Rather, it is the harshness of the country itself. An escapee from a Southeast Asian prison camp must burrow through rotting rain forests, fight off swarms of bugs, swim mighty, mud-thick rivers that cut between the region's steep mountains, and find a way to signal the U.S. rescue planes that orbit high over the jungle. Last week the most recent escapee told...