Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pakistan, of course, was so mad that it declared Nehru's annexation day a "black" day, and tens of thousands of Pakistanis rioted. But less predictable was the reaction of Southeast Asian "neutralists," whose admiration for Nehru once knew no bounds. Accusing India of "obvious hypocrisy," Burma's English-language Nation charged that Nehru "has shown himself capable on this issue of flouting the principles he so ardently preaches to other countries." The annexation of Kashmir, said Abadi, voice of Indonesia's powerful Moslem Masjumi Party, "places India on the same level with Soviet Russia...
...Correspondent Bell was making the first circuit of his new beat last week. Before he moved to Bonn in 1954, he had covered an area of the Middle East encompassing roughly 5,500,000 square miles (area of the U.S.: 3,022,387 square miles). Now his domain is Southeast Asia - Formosa, the Philippines. Indonesia, Malaya, Thailand, Indo-China and Burma. And he may range as far as Australia...
...Germany's Konrad Adenauer. He threw international Communism into a flap by releasing the text of Khrushchev's historic oration to the 20th Party Congress denouncing Stalin and his works-a text never published by Moscow. Through the successful extension of U.S. power through pacts, e.g., the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, he curbed the rising in fluence of Red China, strengthened even the newest and weakest of anti-Communist nations, such as South Viet Nam, and brought a new stability to Asia...
...Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef. When Ben Youssef was restored to the throne in 1955 to become the first Sultan of Free Morocco, one of his first acts was to appoint Addi ou Bihi Governor of Tafilalet province, a vast domain between the Sahara desert and the Atlas mountains in southeast Morocco...
Cause of Cholon's unwonted somberness was a frontal assault by South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem on a problem common to all Southeast Asian nations: the threat posed by unassimilated colonies of overseas Chinese. In South Viet Nam, where they make up only one-tenth of the population, Chinese control nearly two-thirds of the economy. Though many come from families that have been in the country for centuries, almost none have taken out Vietnamese citizenship...