Word: asianization
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Although U.S. officials were pleased by Hanoi's pledge to return American MIAs, they doubted that Viet Nam was signaling a fundamental shift in policy. The Thach proposal shrewdly preceded the annual conference of the non-Communist Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where ASEAN foreign ministers groped for ways to bring about talks between Viet Nam and the Kampuchean insurgents. A plan calling for negotiations with a Vietnamese delegation that might include representatives of the Heng Samrin regime won the backing of resistance fighters, ASEAN nations and the U.S. But Viet Nam rejected the idea...
...from China in 1903 not speaking a word of English, yet he eventually attended Yale Law School. My mother came from China in 1929 and first worked in a restaurant; she later graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School. As their stories show, despite prejudice, the success of Asian Americans through hard work is not new. Jock K. Chung New York City...
...Eisenhower probably considered it, but he was concerned about using the Bomb in Korea because it was another Asian country. That had to be in the back of his mind. It was in the back of my mind, at least. And yet he was between a rock and a hard place. He had to end the war, he ruled out the use of ground troops, and all he had was the nuclear option...
...remains to be seen. Like most U.N. ideals, the warm feelings of sisterly unity that infused Nairobi may be difficult to translate into concrete action in the rough-and-tumble forum of international politics. But many women nevertheless voiced their determination to try. Said Filipino Irene Santiago, of the Asian Women's Research and Action Network: "We are preparing for the long haul." --By Susan Tifft. Reported by Jane O'Reilly and Maryanne Vollers/Nairobi WOMEN WORLDWIDE...
...public selection process, Lan Samantha Chang, Briggs-Copeland lecturer on English and American Literature and Language, has been selected to direct the University of Iowa (UI) Writers’ Workshop, beginning in January 2006. A graduate of the program, Chang is the first female as well as the first Asian-American director of the Workshop...