Word: southeast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most major showdowns between regional aspirations and national pride, nationalism usually triumphs. An exception took place at last week's meeting in Djakarta of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, made up of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore. Their promising, year-old political and economic association was bedeviled by the nastiest neighborhood dispute between two ASEAN members since Indonesia's konfrontasi with Malaysia ended in 1966. Encouragingly, regionalism came...
...Philippines, the Manila government claims that the original agreement merely leased Sabah to the British instead of ceding it. Last month, talks in Bangkok broke down, and Manila threatened to withdraw its ambassador to Kuala Lumpur, a rupture that could have scuttled ASEAN as a promising vessel for Southeast Asian cooperation...
...Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn points out, mean "agonizing compromises on both sides" before any settlement can be reached. Not all the basic goals of either U.S. or North Vietnamese policy are likely to survive a genuine settlement. Furthermore, the nature of the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia has undergone considerable change, as French Political Scientist Raymond Aron has astutely pointed out. Initially, the issue in Viet Nam was blunt, says Aron: "Either the Viet Cong will rule in Saigon tomorrow or they won't." But, he adds, "Fortunately, diplomacy can, under certain circumstances, outwit logic...
Some experts, including William Pfaff of the Hudson Institute, are convinced that any durable settlement for Viet Nam must sooner or later embrace all the countries of Southeast Asia, providing for the neutralization of not only Viet Nam but also Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and perhaps even Malaysia. Pfaff would include Thailand (and to a lesser extent Malaysia) to balance off North Viet Nam's presence in the neutralist bloc with a prospering, pro-Western nation...
...history went virtually unnoticed. But if the ashes of Detroit and Newark have grown cold, the emotions they raised clearly have not. Law and order now looms as the No. 1 issue of 1968, even overshadowing a war that keeps more than 500,000 American servicemen in combat in Southeast Asia...