Well before last week's visit to Seoul by Under Secretary of State Philip Habib and General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Asian leaders were getting seriously worried about U.S. foreign policy in the Pacific. Time Inc. Corporate Editor Ralph Graves talked with several of them during a three-week visit to South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. His assessment of Asian attitudes:
The real business of Asia is now unmistakably business. Every country seems to be chasing after the Japanese economic miracle. Everybody is talking...