Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...optimism about the state of the world. Despite the French-instigated tremors within NATO, Europe not only is more stable than at any time since World War II but is also full of political movement hinting at political innovations to come. In Asia, nine free countries met at Seoul and formed a loose but friendly association that would have been impossible a year...
...founders aimed at standing aside from the direct anti-Communist struggle in Asia, even though all its members are nonCommunist. One reason was to ensure participation by the Japanese, who are both dubious about the Viet Nam war and anxious to increase their trade with Red China. Thus at Seoul the final communique last week expressed "sympathy" with South Viet Nam's plight, affirmed the nation's right to freedom "from external aggression and subversion," and "noted with satisfaction" the aid being given by other nations to help Saigon's war effort. But at the behest...
...come here to band ourselves against any people or nation," asserted Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman last week to some 80 delegates from Japan, Malaysia, Nationalist China, Australia, New Zealand, South Viet Nam, the Philippines, Thailand and South Korea. Rather, their purpose in gathering in flag-festooned Seoul was, he said, "an alliance for the advancement and prosperity of our peoples...
...merely described the prostitution in Saigon; he had hardly gone so far as to characterize the whole city as a brothel. It took Fulbright to make that assumption-and irritate his supporters as well as his detractors. "Saigon is no more an American brothel, literally or figuratively, than was Seoul, Berlin, Rome or wartime London," said the New Republic, which generally goes along with the Senator's criticism of U.S. foreign policy. Fulbright's simplistic generalizations, added the magazine, are a "sad indication of what Viet Nam has done...
...President, Ferdinand E. Marcos (see THE WORLD). Later that day, Humphrey flew to Clark Air Force Base, the staging hospital for all U.S. casualties from Viet Nam, spent a somber, occasionally tearful hour visiting wounded G.I.s. After Manila, the Vice President spread good will in Taipei and Seoul before heading home to give Lyndon back his Air Travel card...