Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students' parents, the searches were not simply a matter of safety but perhaps one of racism. Of the 28 students searched, 21were black or Hispanic, five were white and two were Asian. Also, they criticized the failure to inform some parents that their children had been searched, and the effects the searches had on their children's self-esteem...
...East Asian studies concentrator as an undergraduate, Pollock decided that he wanted to put his newfound knowledge to use at a company in Japan...
...Howard warned the nation Wednesday to expect casualties, after Australia heeded a U.N. request to head up a mission to restore order to East Timor by "all necessary measures." The first Australians will arrive by the weekend to head up a multinational force of 8,000 drawn mostly from Asian countries. And ending the violence in the territory will be their most dangerous mission since the Vietnam war. The operation's primary task will be to disarm the anti-independence militias who, assisted by elements of the Indonesian military, continued Wednesday with a campaign of terror against a civilian population...
...What is U.S. policy on East Timor? The U.S. had tacitly supported Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor because Indonesia was its key southeast Asian ally during the Cold War. Over the next decade, Washington routinely voted against U.N. resolutions recognizing East Timor's independence and urging Indonesia's withdrawal. With Cold War concerns a thing of the past, however, the U.S. now wants Indonesia to respect the will of East Timor's people as expressed democratically through August's referendum. But Indonesia's economic and political centrality to the region, and its potential instability, make Washington cautious about...
...invasion of the tiny country, whose Portuguese colonial administration had collapsed. In fact, President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had been in Jakarta the day before Indonesian troops went in. With South Vietnam having collapsed only eight months earlier, Washington wasn't about to see another Asian domino fall to the communists. The murder and mayhem wrought by the Indonesian forces may have been distasteful, but Indonesia had been the anchor of Western interests in Asia. So East Timor had to wait for the end of the Cold War and then some before democracy could be allowed...