Word: formosae
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Right Where He Is. Leaving Tokyo at week's end. the Kennedys had only begun their journey. Ahead lay Formosa, then Hong Kong. The Attorney General would spend six days in Indonesia, where rioting students last week broke the windows of the U.S. embassy. Beyond that was Thailand, whose government is nervous about Communist inroads in nearby Laos and Viet Nam, expects to hear reassuring words from the President's brother. After that would come visits to Rome, Berlin, Bonn. The Hague and Paris-and finally the return to Washington...
...Philippines, El Tor spread a bit more slowly than typical cholera. Mass inoculations might have helped, but government and antigovernment forces, burning with election fever, accused each other of cornering vaccine for their partisans. The government welcomed a U.S. Navy team of veteran cholera fighters from Formosa, but failed to use vigorously the weapon that the Navymen recommended: salt water. Cholera victims are weakened and killed by a catastrophic loss of body fluids through vomiting and diarrhea (as many as 15 quarts in a day); they can nearly always be saved by prompt, aggressive treatment, in which saline solution...
...Philippines have received donations of vaccine and lifesaving solutions from the U.S., Formosa and Hong Kong. Last week UNICEF raised a $50,000 fund to pump more in. But for too many Filipinos the effort was too late. Said a foreign observer: "A terrible social and medical crime has been committed...
...good guy (ugly) working for his country amid a collection of bad guys (not ugly) whose laziness and incompetence, indifference and self-indulgence were rapidly turning an Asian nation over to the smart, dedicated Reds. Sheep, presented as fact, consists of five exposé-style chapters (on Laos, Thailand, Formosa, Korea, and the foreign student program), four chapters on who is to blame (bumbling bureaucrats and ignorant journalists), and four chapters on what's to be done about...
Finally, the Assembly voted on the vital Soviet Union resolution, a hard-nosed declaration that would not only grant China's seat to the Peking Communists, but would also give the Reds what amounted to a U.N. blessing in conquering Formosa. The Russian resolution could not even win a simple majority, and was defeated 48-36, with 20 abstentions. The roll call...