Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambodia...
Everyone or No One. Where the harsher Cuban resolution had won the support of only four Asian "neutrals"-Burma, Cambodia. Ceylon and Laos-every Asian member of the U.N. and more than half of its twelve Arab members lined up against the U.S.S.R. to pass the Menon resolution by a vote of 57 to 8. Rarely in its battle to win the good opinion of humanity had Russia suffered a more significant defeat...
Fireworks in Formosa. The Half Safe pushed on through Cambodia and Vietnam. Ahead, bridges were out, so Carlin set his course straight for Hong Kong, 500 miles over the South China Sea. It was the longest transoceanic hop since the Atlantic. The travelers lived on bread, fruit and canned beans. Leaded gasoline fouled the engine and Carlin somehow managed to do a complete valve job at sea. Safe in Hong Kong, Carlin converted his engine to run on kerosene, only to find there was none available...
Nine nations-Cambodia, Nationalist China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam-got $767 million in U.S. economic and technical assistance in fiscal 1956, the International Corporation Administration reported last week. South Korea, which maintains 20 army divisions, got the biggest slice: $327 million...
...that Nehru speaks for all Asia. This is manifest nonsense. Nehru does not speak for Mao's China, for Japan, for the Philippines, for Formosa, for Korea, for Thailand, for North or South Viet Nam, for Afghanistan, for Pakistan. His influence is principally felt in Ceylon, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Malaya and Indonesia...