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...assure a continuous flow of Mideast oil. But more importantly, this was the first instance since the founding of the People's Republic that any nation has been allowed to maintain relations simultaneously with the governments of "both" Chinas. The implications for the United States, currently grappling with this dilemma, are significant for those who fear a "sellout" of Taiwan...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: Facing the Yellow Peril | 10/14/1978 | See Source »

...bills, legislators have lost sight of the central issue--aid to middle-income families struggling to put children through college. Tuition tax credit proposals, which call for a $250 tax credit to all families regardless of their need for such assistance, are clearly not the answer to this dilemma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bogus Credits | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

...that of a natural and legal focus for an alternative structure of allegiance to that of the Communist Party. While the pulpit remains uncensored, though priests sign human rights petitions and the Primate and his fellow bishops criticize the government on social issues, the regime is caught in a dilemma of choosing between semi-toleration or repression...

Author: By Gordon Marsden, | Title: The State of Dissent | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

Once again the Carter Administration finds itself in a moral dilemma: Do we tolerate the Shah's fascist savagery as long as he satisfies our anti-Communist needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1978 | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

Giamatti found himself a man without his profession when school started up this fall. The forty-year-old Renaissance literature scholar muses over his dilemma. He doesn't sit around feeling sorry for himself..."much," but he talks endlessly about teaching, which he misses profoundly. In his new role as a university president, Giamatti feels he has lost "the possibility for completion--the kind of purposeful wandering that teaching is like, in some sense of the word." He goes on to explain: "Classes have a rhythm, the semester has a rhythm. A piece of work has a rhythm...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Giamatti at Yale: Professor Turns President | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

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