Word: southeast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours. On the stern, 30 Navy aircraft were ready to be catapulted aloft. Loaded with 500-lb. bombs, rockets and air-to-air missiles, the planes of Carrier Air Wing Nine were going to wage a simulated attack on the barren island of Kahoolawe, some 85 miles southeast of Honolulu...
...campaign speeches last fall, Richard Nixon pledged an honorable peace in Viet Nam, but carefully refrained from revealing any of the specifics that he would prescribe to end Southeast Asia's three decades of bloodshed and turmoil. Thus Nixon is assuming the presidency unfreighted with any of the electioneering labels that proved so embarrassing to Lyndon Johnson. The President-elect is neither avowedly hawk nor dove, and the Communist negotiators he will face in Paris, knowing nothing of the President-elect's intentions, are finding a match for their own studied inscrutability...
...last great underdeveloped markets for air travel reaches from the U.S. across the Pacific-to Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia and the islands in between. No major Pacific routes have been awarded by the U.S. Government since 1946, and airline executives have been lobbying long and hard to get more. The first leg of the air race ended last spring, when a Civil Aeronautics Board examiner recommended that the international business be divided up among five carriers. The final decision was up to the White House, which last week finally put an end to the marathon...
...over the North Pole to Japan. Northwest Airlines, also a Pacific veteran, will get an additional route to Japan via Hawaii. Result: more competition between Pan Am and Northwest, but also more opportunity for each to attract traffic. Finally, the Flying Tiger Line landed an all-cargo route to Southeast Asia...
Reischauer warned against pulling out of Southeast Asia "in a clumsy, helter-skelter way." Such a withdrawal, he said, would further damage American prestige and cause friendly nations to lose confidence...