Word: kraar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Chang assayed Japan's position. Hong Kong Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan skipped across the South China Sea to Taipei, where he talked with Nationalist leaders and their constituents. Far East Correspondent Louis Kraar tapped sources in Singapore. Malaysia, the Philippines and Djakarta. Our Paris, Rome and Bonn bureaus reported on European reaction, while Washington correspondents covered the State Department, the White House and Capitol Hill...
...army was not at all eager, however, to let the journalists look around on their own. While walking through Natore, TIME Correspondent Louis Kraar reported last week, "a bearded peace committeeman kept interrupting every time anyone spoke to me. Finally, I escaped him-and found myself in the Hindu section of town. It was totally destroyed, a pile of rubble and ashes. As I walked, a young Bengali pressed close and explained that he was a student. 'We are living in terror of the army,' he told me. 'Until today, when you came, they have been killing...
Reports Louis Kraar, TIME's Southeast Asia correspondent: "Slowly, these subtle shifts have added up to form some sharply definable trends: a marked cooling of fears about Peking, a perceptively calmer view of the Indochina war, a reasonably confident acceptance of the rapidly receding presence of both American and British military forces in the area...
...times Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, 52, tries to minimize the growing unrest among the country's 39 million people. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Louis Kraar in Manila's Malacanang Palace, Marcos insisted: "There's not as much turbulence here, I would say, as in some Western countries, perhaps the U.S. and Belfast, Ireland." But at other times Marcos concedes that Philippine society is "sick, so sick that it must either be cured now or buried in a deluge of reforms...
...peak of the U.S. buildup in early 1969, there were 590,800 U.S. troops in Southeast Asia, including 543,400 in South Viet Nam. "The war effort spread dollar windfalls around the Far East." reports TIME Correspondent Louis Kraar. "An unusually wide range of Asians profited-Japanese manufacturers catering to the PX trade, Hong Kong bar girls practicing the world's oldest profession, and the men involved with Singapore's secretive gold market and numbered bank accounts...