Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dynasty in 1898, under the Emperor Kuang Hsu, the Chinese tried to imitate the Japanese Emperor Meiji's transformation of Japan, from feudalism in the last half of the 19th century. In the early days of Sun Yat-sen's Republican China, an effort to streamline the society with foreign help ended in a bitter failure that eventually turned China toward puritanical socialism. The Chinese, wrote Historian C.P. FitzGerald, "became disillusioned with the false gods of the West They turned restlessly to some other solution...
...Administration launched an all-fronts lobbying effort. Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Pentagon Chief Harold Brown and other Carter advisers phoned every Senator and key Congressman to ask for support and to answer questions. The White House was also considering asking big businessmen and big farmers for endorsements. Said a White House aide: "It is going to be hard for Senators to raise hell if the power structures in their home states say that China is a good deal." The opposition is hurt further by the fact that Carter is backed on China by some prominent...
...question was one that reporters asked at just about every meeting between Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: How far apart were the two diplomats in their seemingly endless effort to work out a second-stage SALT treaty? In Geneva last week Gromyko answered by holding his hands about a foot apart...
...hanging Prime Minister Morarji Desai in effigy; at least 15 people died and Gandhi's followers claimed that 32,000 demonstrators were arrested. Two members of the party's youth wing hijacked an Indian Airlines jet to the holy city of Benares with 132 people aboard; their effort to exchange the hostages for Gandhi's freedom fizzled when their weapons turned out to be a toy pistol and a ball disguised as a grenade...
Though actors worked hard for the national morale and propaganda effort, the Garden of Allah life does not appear to have been greatly curtailed. The West Coast version of Stage Door Canteen took place at Cole Porter's house, where "he always had a few soldiers who had no place to go." Bogart did his part in the Coast Guard. Once a week he cruised the coastline off Balboa, keeping an eye peeled for the Japanese. Never have...