Word: regionals
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Slowly but unmistakably, the nations of Asia are adjusting to the Communist conquest of Indochina. That event has forced all nations of the region, including China and the countries on its vast periphery, to re-examine their relations with one another and with Washington. Last week Thailand-a member of the Association of South East Asian Nations, once regarded as a barrier to Chinese Communist expansion-followed the Philippines and Malaysia in establishing formal diplomatic relations with Peking. TIME'S diplomatic editor Jerrold L. Schecter completed a tour of Asia that included many of the affected capitals. His report...
...worst-hit section of Haiti is the northwest, a region of rugged, treeless hills where only cactus and mesquite seem to flourish. There were heavy rains in November when, as Baptist Missionary Vance Brown puts it, "the people went crazy planting like they've never planted before. And then we didn't get another sniff of rain for seven months." The winter crop was lost and the spring crop, which normally would be planted in April, was never put in at all. To make matters still worse, a mysterious disease called "yellowing" has killed coconut palms that were...
Even before the final totals rolled in from Italy's first regional elections in five years, Communist leaders were agape at what they were seeing. In contests for 15 of Italy's 20 regional governments, 86 of its 95 provinces and 6,347 of its 8,065 cities and towns, the Communists made stunning inroads. They captured the Liguria region, embracing Genoa and the Italian Riviera, to go along with the three regions they already controlled in the Communist "Red Belt"-Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Umbria. They out polled the long-entrenched Christian Democrats in the Marches...
...naval installations in Vladivostok, just 40 miles from the border, with perhaps 1.5 million Soviet and Chinese troops facing off at the Manchurian border and with a lethal U.S. nuclear arsenal on Okinawa, put the Korean peninsula at the center of what may well be the most intensively militarized region in the world. The very existence of these enormous armed forces, in conjunction with the profound antagonism generated by three decades of division, increases the danger that any misstep could lead...
...Peking, his hosts stressed that their "resolute support" of the Korean people was actually for "the independent and peaceful reunification" of Korea. It was an unmistakable message to Kim that Peking does not want a renewed Korean War. In fact, the Chinese are so concerned about stability in the region that high-level Peking officials have broadly hinted-to U.S. visitors, among others-that they are not anxious for American forces to leave East Asia. The Soviets were at least as discouraging. In his recent travels, Kim conspicuously omitted the Soviet Union; according to senior Soviet experts on Asia, Moscow...