Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Truman: That little bastard imagines himself a patriot. It was really his street-fighting instinct that got him to react to the invasion of South Korea...
...make arms purchases, be ended by June 30. The House appropriations bill goes even further by forcing the President to reduce any underdeveloped nation's economic aid by the amount of its own funds that the country spends to buy sophisticated weaponry. Only Greece, Turkey, Iran, Israel, Taiwan, Korea and the Philippines would be exempted...
...news. In London, the International Planned Parenthood Federation announced last week that its 1968 budget would be $6,500,000, double that of 1967 and six times the amount it spent in 1965. Almost simultaneously, the Manhattan-based Population Council reported that family-planning efforts in Taiwan and South Korea had met with marked success, mainly through increased use of intrauterine devices like the Lippes loop...
Echoes of Korea. Both Pitzer and Jackson made set-piece speeches, obviously memorized, thanking the Viet Cong for releasing them. Jackson, dressed in shorts and sports shirt, said woodenly: "The National Liberation Front made the decision to release me in response to the colored Negro American struggle for peace in the U.S." Pitzer said that "I have not been physically tortured or beaten. I wish to thank the Front for their lenient policy." Though neither sergeant hinted at a condemnation or repudiation of the U.S. war effort in Viet Nam, the circumstances inevitably raised echoes of Korea and brainwashing...
...long range, Reischauer counsels less not more direct U.S. involvement in Asia. The U.S. Seventh Fleet should continue to shield the island nations, and the line must be held in Korea. But elsewhere, the U.S. should disengage, at least militarily. Reischauer believes that the general trend in Asia is favorable to U.S. interests anyway. That trend is nationalism, and Reischauer believes that U.S. aid, wisely and unobtrusively administered, can promote the growth of healthy national states in Asia. He also holds out hope for regional groupings, and banks heavily on the progressive influence of Japan...