Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Health, Education and Welfare so that their potentially noxious effects could be studied. HEW would be given authority to designate industries that contribute heavily to pollution, and in each case would determine the maximum tolerable level of deleterious materials that they could generate. The department would also designate "regional airsheds" throughout the country, wherever there was serious pollution whose fallout area superseded state and local jurisdictions. In each such region, a commission consisting of two representatives of each state involved and one from HEW would be responsible for enforcing broad national standards and more detailed local rules...
...nevertheless been unwilling to allow the full impact of its national prosperity to permeate the rest of Asia. Fearful of evoking the specter of Japan's wartime "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," conservative Premiers have shied away from government involvement in the aid and development of the region. But over the past year, Premier Sato has moved quietly and in typical "low posture" to take Japan into a more active Asian role...
Says Kukrit Pramoji, a leading Thai journalist: "The prime desire for most Asians in this region is to write 'Yankee Go Home' on every wall. It's in their subconscious, even though they realize the Americans mean well and we need their protection. Now we're trying to build a substitute for the United States-a United States of Asia. That's the dream now." It is only a paper dream, when measured against the near chaos that prevails in much of Asia. Still, it is significant that Asian countries no longer look to Communist...
Though today's pundits often dismiss Viet Nam as a little country of little strategic consequence, it was Viet Nam -then Indo-China-that played a major role in getting the U.S. into World War II. When Japan moved into the region in 1941, thereby gaining a commanding geographical position in South-east Asia-to say nothing of a wealth of rubber resources-the U.S. considered the situation threatening enough to freeze all Japanese assets. Japan's countermove came just four months later-at Pearl Harbor...
...safety, and, in that event, "we would act to meet the common danger." There is no question that an expanding armed attack by North Vietnam on South Vietnam has been under way in recent years; and six nations, with vital interests in the peace and security of the region, have joined South Vietnam in defense against that armed attack...