... American people and we left Viet Nam. It’s rising today as a regional power that will dominate that portion of Southeast Asia within the next decade. But that’s a prediction. I could be wrong. I fought in that war and don’t know ...

... three paragraphs about it for Time. "It was a minor incident in a faraway place," said Karnow, who reported from southeast Asia from 1959 to the early 1970s. "Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that these two guys would be the first in ...

... McNamara gradually changed; in the fall of 1967 he went public with his doubts about the effectiveness of bombing in Southeast Asia. By that time I was working in the White House, and President Lyndon Johnson told me, "That man can't take this ...

... three countries are representative of the three major regions that play host to tropical diseases: Latin America, Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. In these areas, local beliefs about healing often create contrast between what natural ...

... Sayyaf rebel group in the Philippines who was accused of kidnapping three Americans in 2001 and of masterminding one of Southeast Asia's worst terror attacks three years later, is killed by Filipino army forces. 2008 - A British Airways jet from ...

... monthly ration by 20 percent to 26 gallons (100 liters) per car in March. Malaysia, where subsidies ensured some of Southeast Asia's cheapest gasoline, increased prices by 40 percent to $3.31 a gallon (61 cents a liter) last year, sparking ...

... zoo Friday. Randel Berry, the zoo's reptile keeper, says the snake is a non-venomous python species found in southeast Asia. Berry said the snake is the largest one in capitivity in the state, as well as the largest snake ever at the Little ...

... other Japanese war leaders were executed in Tokyo. In 1967, President Johnson, on his way home from a visit to Southeast Asia, held an unprecedented meeting with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican. In 1968, 82 crew members of the U.S. intelligence ...

... occurred a decade ago as part of the very serious Asian crisis. At that time, high-risk government policies in Southeast Asia sparked financial fright, and money flight, throughout the region. Roh's fiscal prudence in giving priority to ...

... rightly noted that there is no reason Africa can't experience a "green revolution" of the sort that transformed Southeast Asia in previous decades. U.N. agencies such as the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Fund for ...