Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambodia's ex-King Norodom Sihanouk has long been the most unpredictable political tumbler in Southeast Asia. At the Geneva Conference on Indo-China four years ago, Sihanouk's delegation won Western cheers with its courageous stand against Communist attempts to take Cambodia by negotiation. Later Sihanouk switched to "neutrality," made triumphant tours of Red China and the Soviet Union, at home coupled on-again-off-again praise for the Communists with equally erratic pats and cuffs for the West...
...from the sands of Florida's Cape Canaveral last week shot the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile with fiery blast and awesome roar. It climbed majestically into a layer of low-hanging clouds, disappeared to the southeast, and a few minutes later plummeted into the ocean 600 miles away-as planned...
Assignment Southeast Asia: NBC spent three months and $125,000 shooting a color documentary on the seven-nation region that arcs from Laos to Indonesia, then let the film gather dust for a year. Last week viewers could see the results-and understand why nobody bothered to rush the go-minute show to the screen. Southeast Asia offered some striking individual shots, such as a closeup of an opium smoker, and picturesque views of Thai boxers, golden Burmese temples and the stone splendor of Cambodia's Angkor Wat. But in trying to do too much-a travelogue plus...
...guns of Communist China fire only fitfully these days across the Formosa Strait. Southeast Asia's Communist guerrillas are in retreat. Red China, racked by agrarian unrest, by industrial and political upheaval, by flood and famine, has turned its attention inward. Throughout the Asian rimland there are signs-some faint, some clearly visible-that peace and order have begun to creep into the ascendant. Politically, only one nation-Indonesia -still thrashes in chaos. Economically, inflation has hurt eastern Asia less than some others; several nations, led by Japan, are surging toward prosperity...
...Malaya. Southeast Asia's newest independent country is politically and economically its healthiest. Conservatively governed Malaya has squelched its Communist guerrillas; surviving Communists are now taking Abdul Rahman's amnesty offer in heartening numbers. The fact that 40% of the population is Chinese is a potential source of conflict, but both sides are currently cooperating eagerly to consolidate the new state. Tin and rubber keep Malaya in dollars...