Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Cambodia's lingering peace was being disturbed by the trailblazers of Communism, filtering across its eastern marchlands from Red-infested Viet Nam, raiding its villages, waylaying its merchants and preaching revolt in the Royal Khmer (i.e., Cambodian) army. The Reds posed as patriots, burning to liberate Cambodia from French imperialism; in fact they were the vanguard of an uglier imperialism: Communist China's. Waist-deep in swamp and jungle fighting in the Red River delta, the French could do little to defend their Cambodian proteges from Communist attack. Instead, the 3,000,000 Cambodians relied...
...wanted to use national radio hookups, which at that time would have overburdened the wires of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. To remedy the situation, a radio-company official suggested that candidates limit their speeches to one section of the country at a time, beaming industrial talks to eastern cities, farm speeches to farm areas, etc. Then he offered this additional counsel: "If the campaign managers will take the advice of those of us who have studied the problems of broadcasting, they will not attempt to put on the air long-winded political speeches . . . The ordinary political speech . . . will...
Some of his most telling blows were aimed at the Administration's global strategy: "We practically invited Soviet dominance over the free peoples of Eastern Europe . . . We deliberately withdrew our armies . . . permitting the advance of Soviet forces ... to plant the red flag of Communism on the ramparts ... of Western civilization...
...McCarran subcommittee, set up by Congress in December 1950, plunged immediately into a complex inquiry: Was the Institute of Pacific Relations infiltrated by Communists and their sympathizers? If so, how much control did the I.P.R. exert on U.S. public opinion and U.S. Far Eastern policy...
...perennial West Coast powerhouses, Washington (by 3 lengths) and California (by 3½). Navy's time: 5:57.7, just one second off California's 1948 Olympic trial mark. Finishing at a sprinting beat of 42 strokes a minute, the midshipmen became the first Olympic crew from the Eastern U.S. since Yale's 1924 crew, the first from Annapolis since...