Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everywhere the group went, the main questions on the agenda were the Viet Nam war and what is to follow when it ends. As they charted their continent's future course, Asia's leaders argued with out exception that the U.S. must continue to play a prominent role. Talking with tour members in Bangkok, Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman urged the U.S. to abandon its tendency to talk about "so-called priorities" between trouble spots in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere. Thanat's explanation was straightforward: "The people who live in lesser-priority...
Another War. A rare opportunity for relaxation came in Manila, when the Communist offensive in Viet Nam forced the travelers to delay their departure for Saigon. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, who had already played host to them at the presidential palace, invited the Americans, along with a number of Filipinos, for a cruise across Manila Bay aboard his yacht, The President. At Corregidor, the visitors went ashore to inspect the bombed-out fortress that U.S. and Filipino defenders surrendered to the Japanese in another war 27 years before...
...Singapore's famed Raffles Hotel, tour members lunched with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who warned against a precipitate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Viet Nam. At week's end the travelers jetted off to Indonesia for conferences with President Suharto and Foreign Minister Adam Malik. Visits to South Korea and Japan lay ahead before they crossed the international dateline on the trip home...
Late to Bed. The dispute between France and Britain over the future of NATO and the Common Market clouded all the President's efforts to renew communications with Europe. The war in Viet Nam also was very much on his mind. Even as he took off from Washington's Andrews Air Force Base, he was being informed of fresh Communist attacks and U.S. uncertainty over how the new offensive would affect the still desultory Paris peace talks (see THE WORLD...
Nixon's Legacy. Nixon and his advisers were relieved, not least because the President has not yet fully formulated his Viet Nam policy. To be forced into resumption of the bombing of North Viet Nam at this juncture would severely limit his options for now and bring all of L.BJ.'s antiwar critics out in full cry anew-including a substantial number in the countries that Nixon visited last week...