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...Nationalist Chinese forces is inevitable," but he was much more restrained in Washington. His and McNamara's joint communiqué said simply that they had discussed the Asian situation, the question of Formosan aid to Viet Nam (the U.S. does not want it), and U.S. military aid to Formosa (which has declined to about $70 million a year). Chiang went to a series of dinners and cocktail parties, saw President Johnson for 30 minutes, and called on his stepmother daily in her suite at the Shoreham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Visitors from China | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

Nearly 20 years of aid have powerfully molded the U.S. program of today. Assistance has been cut back for various reasons: heartening success, as in Formosa, or depressing failure, as in Haiti. The fact that nations do get cut off suggests that AID may not go on forever. That debilitating form of aid, direct injections into national budgets, has been mostly dropped, except for South Viet Nam, Korea, Laos, Jordan and the Congo. Military aid, once the source of sour jokes about dictators who "imported 5,000 Communists" to scare the U.S. into supplying arms, now goes mostly to eleven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Foreign Aid's Wry Success | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

Cloaked in inscrutability and her undying charm, Madame Chiang Kaishek, 67, flew into the U.S. for her first visit since 1958. Immediately, she had everyone wondering whether the tour might include a stop at the White House and some talks about the future of Formosa, but Nationalist China's First Lady gracefully sidestepped all questions about her purposes. She said she would like to visit President Johnson, but added that no advance arrangements had been made. Then Madame Chiang visited relatives and friends in San Francisco, revealing a bit of gossip about her husband. "In the last two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 3, 1965 | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...absence, however, for Ky has long been sensitive to the growing U.S. presence in his country, loses no opportunity to vehemently affirm his independence. Lodge's arrival happened at a convenient time for Ky to take off on the second leg of an image-building trip to Formosa and Thailand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Getting to Know Them | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

Despite hints by Formosa, which still has the third largest army in Asia (400,000 men), Ky was not after troops for his embattled nation, sought instead economic and technical aid and−most important−the psychological support of other Asian countries. To these limited aims, the Nationalist Chinese and Thais responded enthusiastically. Ky was so satisfied with his first round of image-building abroad that he will make more trips in September. Next stops: the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Getting to Know Them | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

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