Word: southeast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thompson's perspective has brought him alternately in and out of phase with the prevailing U.S. strategies in Viet Nam. He still subscribes to the domino theory that a Communist success in Viet Nam would jeopardize other shaky governments in Southeast Asia and even as far away as Latin America. He approved Kennedy's commitment of U.S. advisers and his accent on unconventional Special Forces. He advised the late South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem to undertake a program of protected "strategic hamlets," but the program flopped when Diem moved too quickly, ignoring Thompson's warning...
Good Reasons. The Nixon Administration is anxious to draw China out of its "angry, alienated shell," as Under Secretary of State Elliot Richardson put it recently. The U.S. fully realizes that it cannot effect any lasting solutions in Viet Nam and Southeast Asia without at least some cooperation from China. Also, Washington worries that a lack of contact between China and the U.S. might embolden the Russians to blackmail or attack China. In view of Moscow's superior military strength, an American show of neutrality would only benefit the Russians; yet because of the communications void between Peking...
...river and one of the least used, rises in the Himalayan plateau of China near Tibet, plunges turbulently through the mountain gorges of Yunnan, and emerges to divide and water the Indo-Chinese peninsula. Local leaders speak lyrically of the Mekong development project, expecting that it could do for Southeast Asia what the Tennessee Valley Authority did for the South-Central...
...boycott, which was initiated a' Berkeley, is to put enough economic pressure on Pan Am to get the airline to carry no more military personnel or cargo to Southeast Asia and to Southeast Asia and to refuse to "charter its equipment to the Department of Defense for any purpose other than to bring home the troops," a spokesman for CCAS said...
...demonstrations that have directly affected American policies in Viet Nam and unlike the march on Washington, the fast has not managed even to create the illusion that it could. But in its quiet way, the fast will work to repair the incalculable damage the United States has done in Southeast Asia...