Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tour is a unique project designed to provide a group of top U.S. businessmen with an opportunity to gather information and insights into some of the principal countries of the Far East. The fourth such undertaking arranged by TIME since 1963 (the others went to Western Europe and Russia, Asia and Eastern Europe), this year's trip will have carried its participants on a 23,000-mile journey to ten cities in eight Asian countries before ending in the U.S. next week with a White House debriefing by President Nixon...
Claims and Control. Most of the tour members, traveling as concerned citizens at their own expense, are principal officers of major business organizations. Together they employ 2,400,000 people and had combined sales in 1968 of more than $55 billion. They went to the Far East as observers eager to sound out Asia's leaders. Led by the publisher, TIME'S delegation included Board Chairman Andrew Heiskell, President James A. Linen, Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and Managing Editor Henry Grunwald. The tour program was organized by the Time-Life News Service, with Chief of Correspondents Richard...
Continued Role. From Saigon the travelers went to Bangkok, where they were greeted by Thailand's Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn in a gilded, red-curtained hall of Government House. Later in their stay they had an audience with King Bhumibol Adulyadej in his lavishly landscaped palace. The Thais discussed recent strains in their country's relations with the U.S. and said that efforts to combat Communist insurgency in northeast Thailand were, in Thanom's words, having "rather satisfactory" results...
Everywhere the group went, the main questions on the agenda were the Viet Nam war and what is to follow when it ends. As they charted their continent's future course, Asia's leaders argued with out exception that the U.S. must continue to play a prominent role. Talking with tour members in Bangkok, Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman urged the U.S. to abandon its tendency to talk about "so-called priorities" between trouble spots in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere. Thanat's explanation was straightforward: "The people who live in lesser-priority...
...forced the travelers to delay their departure for Saigon. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, who had already played host to them at the presidential palace, invited the Americans, along with a number of Filipinos, for a cruise across Manila Bay aboard his yacht, The President. At Corregidor, the visitors went ashore to inspect the bombed-out fortress that U.S. and Filipino defenders surrendered to the Japanese in another war 27 years before...