Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chiefs of Staff Admiral Radford recommended U.S. naval air strikes to help the beleaguered French, but Dulles was against it, and the President vetoed this plan; subsequently, the French handed over North Viet Nam (pop. 14 million) to Communism. But after that, the U.S. haltingly, then decisively, threw U.S. support to a shaky new Nationalist government in South Viet Nam, helped negotiate and set up a brand new Southeast Asia Treaty Organization ("Pactomania," said the critics) that has faced up to Communism in Southeast Asia ever since...
When, in early 1955, the Communists launched concerted attacks against Chinese Nationalist positions up and down the Formosa Strait, Dulles took it as a crucial probe of U.S. intentions. His response was immediate and unmistakable. The President sought and got a congressional resolution of support for U.S. defense of Formosa and the Pescadores; the President followed that up with a personal letter to Nationalist China's Chiang promising support at islands Quemoy and Matsu. Result: the Communists backed off, and the whole Red China offensive, rolling ever since Mao Tse-tung came out of the Yenan caves, was bogged...
...modified plan was largely the brainchild of AEC Chairman John McCone, who outlined his proposals last January (TIME, Feb. 2), and got support from the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. Young (34) Idaho Democrat Frank Church accepted them enthusiastically in a Senate speech last month. Tennessee's Albert Gore, in a well-publicized White House visit, urged the U.S. to confine the ban to atmospheric tests, urged that the U.S. offer to suspend them unilaterally...
...While the Dalai Lama posed for pictures at Foothills, the Red Chinese, who had let him slip through their fingers, tried to explain matters at the National People's Congress assembled in Peking. The new puppet ruler of Tibet, the 22-year-old Panchen Lama, had promised full support to the Red army's crushing of the rebellion and expressed "great sympathy and concern" for his friend, the Dalai Lama, "who has been abducted by the rebellious elements." Red China's Premier Chou En-lai unctuously declared that "although the Dalai Lama has been abducted to India...
...town of Tezpur, he stated "categorically," in the third-person style expected of a god, that he left Lhasa and Tibet and came to India "of his own will and not under duress," and said that his "quite arduous" escape was only possible "due to the loyalty and affectionate support of his Tibetan people." In unemotional language (he was pledged not to embarrass his Indian hosts) he bluntly accused the Red Chinese of destroying a large number of monasteries, killing lamas and forcing monks and officials into labor camps. He had left Lhasa in fear of his own life, said...