Word: easts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EAST. Whether Nixon becomes the President who normalizes relations with China depends less on his own ingenuity than on Peking's ability to replace its Maoist aberrations with a more pragmatic approach. Another critical problem in the area, and one that is often overlooked, is Japan. The Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn places the restructuring of Washington-Tokyo relations among the top five priorities of the new Administration in the foreign field; former U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Edwin Reischauer, not surprisingly, places it even higher. Reischauer also notes that in the rest of Asia a precipitate U.S. pullout...
...field of red and blue, flaps conspicuously from the fender. Her limousine has stopped at the Quai D'Orsay, where she paid a courtesy call on Herve Al-phand, former French Ambassador to the U.S. and now secretary-general of the French foreign office. She has attended East bloc receptions, called on the Algerians, Cubans and Cambodians, held teas for leading French Communist women, and visited pro-Communist student organizations. Wherever she goes on this circuit, Madame Binh monotonously hammers her theme: the N.L.F. is the "principal force" in South Viet Nam because it represents four-fifths...
...education, better living conditions, press freedom, an end to emergency laws and to Ayub's presidential system, which is based on a narrow electoral college of 120,000 privileged people. Demonstrations, some peaceful, some unruly, hit at least three dozen towns and cities in both West and East Pakistan...
Overnight, the marshal has become an opposition hero and a formidable prospect for next year's presidential elections. The opposition cause was also boosted by widely respected Syed Mahbub Murshed, former Chief Justice of the East Pakistan High Court, who told the nation that "we are not destined to perish in ignominy if we put up a determined and united resistance to evil...
...rooms are still comfortable, the service is still good, and Havana still swings-a little. You will probably be treated to a nightclub, complete with daiquiris, a chorus line and an audience of gaping Eastern Europeans. The shopping downtown is better: in addition to cigars and rum, bargains include East German cameras and beautifully embroidered Czech peasant blouses. These may also be confiscated by U.S. customs on your return, but they can be regained on application to the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, Washington...