Word: pro-western
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...Burma's taciturn U Thant, who is serving out the unexpired portion of Dag Hammarskjold's term. Backed solidly by the Asian bloc, Thant is also assured of U.S. support; although he is a neutralist, the U.S. cannot hope to get a much more pro-Western man in the present U.N. But the Soviet Union and its satellite delegations have indicated that they will wage another campaign in favor of the troika, a three-headed (one Western, one neutral, one Communist) monstrosity that would leave the U.N. executive impotent...
Exports: Sisal, cotton, coffee. Per capita income: $55. U.S. aid (1961): $4,300,000. Less than one-third of vast land is usable. Disease is rampant. Government is pro-Western, hopes for federation with Kenya and Uganda when they win independence...
Exports: Coffee, cotton, copper. Per capita income: $68. U.S. aid (1961): $200,000. Rich land has no white-settler problem, with independence in October, will have moderate, pro-Western government. Major problem: lack of cohesive, national outlook...
...pro-western Royal Laotian army has tended to stay aloof, while the communist Pathet Lao has moved into the villages and lived among the people. The Pathet Lao did not have to invade Laos, they used a process of "complete encirclement through osmosis...
...Pro-Western Thailand, whose territory is guarded by U.S. troops, and neutral Cambodia, whose territory is scarcely guarded at all, are both neighbors of embattled Laos and South Viet Nam. But in this part of the world, the god Siva can still seem more important than the ghost of Karl Marx, and what goes on in the Red guerrilla-infested rain forests less urgent than the news from the Jungle of Love...