Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rights for U.S. commercial airlines in China (maybe later). There will also be talks (probably inconclusive) about divided Korea, Sino-Soviet relations and the future relationships between the U.S. and China in Asia. Still another subject for discussion is the future of Taiwan. The U.S. will not, of course, abandon its treaty agreements with the island republic. But Washington has finally accepted Peking's position that the future of Taiwan is essentially an internal Chinese problem, to be worked out by Peking and Taipei. Peking seems to accept the logic of the U.S. position that it cannot sever...
...degree, a first-term Senator's need to make a large number of public appearances in his home state, Brooke's voting record for 1971 fell below 80 per cent. Like most Senators, Brooke feels that the law of diminishing return applies, and that it is counter-productive to abandon other activities in order to vote on more than 90 per cent of Senate business. However, with key Senate liberals like Fred Harris of Oklahoma answering only 44 per cent of the roll calls and George McGovern only 59 per cent of the votes during the first nine months...
...flexible on its plan and that it was meant not as final in most of its elements but as a basis for serious bargaining. The one-month interval between Thieu's resignation and the election, for example, presumably could be expanded in negotiations. More substantively, if the Communists would abandon their insistence that political concessions be linked with any military agreement, the U.S. was ready to let political issues be worked out later. In that case, the U.S. would withdraw its forces contingent only upon the release of prisoners and an area-wide ceasefire. This would include...
...there any things you feel so deeply for that you would abandon your novelist's stance for a Maileresque pose...
...majority of modern Israelis who, for the most part, have a tendency toward gentle skepticism in religious matters. Yet insofar as the ancient Jews did develop a higher conception of morality in their monotheistic beliefs, it seems for the Israelis to constitute a type of historic betrayal to abandon the unique role which the Jews once played. Indeed the Utopian vision of the Prophets which clearly saw the day "when nation shall not lift up sword against nation..." was an important corollary to the Messianic expectation of Return to the Promised Land, a return fulfilled only by the Zionists...