Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Revolutionary "wars of national liberation" cannot succeed without a solid nationalistic basis. Since nationalist revolutionaries do not take orders from China or from any other outside power, successful "wars of national liberation" do not involve a direct expansion of Chinese power, and hence do not threaten America's vital interests...
...Chinese communists are the classic practitioners of successful guerrilla warfare. China was a country mired in social and economical injustice, with an impotent and corrupt government. Nevertheless, the Red Army was on the verge of destruction when the Japanese invasion in 1937 drove the Nationalist and warlord forces away and thus allowed the guerrillas to enter the villages not only as reformers but also as effective champions of nationalism in opposition to a foreign invader. Mao Tse-tung rode to victory on these two waves of support. It was foreign occupation of China and not some magic Maoist technique which...
...Major Beauregard Brown III, 31, of De Quincy, La., who supervises combat logistics in Westmoreland's headquarters, to Navy Lieut. Commander Wendall Johnson, 33, a former gunnery officer aboard the Viet Nam-based destroyer U.S.S. Ingraham, who is now one of Saigon's key contacts for Thai, Nationalist Chinese and other Allied cooperation with U.S. forces. They include a brace of other, unrelated Johnsons: Major Clifton R. Johnson, 31, of Baltimore, a chemical-warfare expert with the 173rd Airborne, who laid the smokescreen that kicked off an assault on the Viet Cong regiments that Glide Brown...
Into Washington this week flies C. K. Yen, 61, vice president, premier and, most important, chief economic planner of the Nationalist Chinese government on Taiwan. Within the fortnight following he will pay calls on President Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, businessmen and Chinese communities from Cape Kennedy to San Francisco. Remarkably, he seeks no financial handouts of any sort. But, he admits in a modest way, he would indeed be pleased by recognition of the dramatic fact that Taiwan has become a model for Asian economic development...
...neck of a developing nation. Because of the spine-like ridge of mountains that runs up the middle of Taiwan, only 3,000 of the island's 13,800 square miles are arable; for centuries, that land was held by landlords and worked by tenant farmers. The Nationalist government of Chiang Kaishek, under a land-reform program, distributed small plots to the tenants-and encouraged landlords to invest their settlement money in industry. Now, with farmers keeping 80% of their crop v. 43% in the old days, rice production has increased from 20 tons an acre to 34 tons...