Ex-U S Diplomat Warns of Viet-Like Wars in Southeast Asia
Former U S cultural officer Dr Frank Thompson told about 50 at a United World Federalists meeting in Long Beach that stronger public opinion is needed to stop U S backed covert warfare in Laos and Cambodia. He claimed vast CIA funding and covert operations undermine neutrality and threaten new conflicts in the region.
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Pathet Lao
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Soviet Union
Vietnam
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Rocket Scientist Tsien and the Red Scare in California
The article recalls Tsien Tsienh, a Caltech rocket researcher nicknamed The death by own action Club who helped Caltech’s aeronautics lab before earning a WWII security clearance. Detained five years in Hawaii after fleeing arrest, he faced FBI scrutiny for Communist ties in the 1950s Korea era, was labeled an undesirable alien, and later praised by Dr. Clark Millikan yet embittered by his detention.
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California
Sierra Madres
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U.S. Army Air Corps
Germany
Hitler
Henry “Hap” Arnold
Air Corps
United States
Red China
FBI
Grant Cooper
Sirhan Sirhan
Sen
Robert 3. Kennedy
Honoulu
Eisenhower
U.S
State Department
China
America
Communist Party
Clark Millikan
Duncan Rannie
Caltech Aeronautics
Pasade- Te Chien
Chiangs Son Visits San Onofre Nuclear Plant in U S Tour
Nationalist China vice premier Chiang Ching kuo toured the San Onofre nuclear plant near Los Angeles amid tight security. He spoke at a Chinatown restaurant to about 300 people and later visited a bronze bust of his father, then continued to Century Plaza Hotel.
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Chiang Ching-kuo
San Onofre
Los Angeles
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Chiang
New York
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Century Plaza Hotel
Chiang Kaishek
Stanway Cheng
Secret Service
Christown
Denver
el Toro Marine Air Station
Nationalist China
Formosa
Chiang Ching: Kou
State Department
Japan says China using satellite launch as ICBM test
Close to Japan's foreign ministry say Communist China used its first earth satellite launch as a final test for an intercontinental ballistic missile system. Officials doubt mass production but note possible ICBM capability with a guiding system. Other sources say key Chinese nuclear sites moved to remote areas to deter Soviet attack.
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Peking
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Soviet Union
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The Cambodian Riddle Continued from Page A-1
The piece weighs strategic options in Laos and Cambodia with U S and Vietnamese roles. It explores pluses and minuses of direct aid, indirect help, or staying out, noting the risk of wider escalation and a possible Geneva-style settlement amid Southeast Asian crisis.
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Cambodia
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Sihanouk
Saigon
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South Vietnam
Tim
Mekong
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