Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bernstein gladly accepted the battle conditions as a refreshing change from the traditional methods used to cover the People's Republic. Says he: "Except for occasional canned tours inside China, we had to rely on the tedious scrutiny of documents, along with interviews with refugees, emigres and other travelers. Now, even as Teng's trip inaugurates a new era in Sino-American relations, it also heralds a better epoch in China reporting, one in which we will have regular contact with the Chinese...
During their third session of talks on Tuesday, Carter and Teng spent 25 minutes alone, with just an interpreter, in the Oval Office. White House aides refused to disclose anything at all about the exchange except that it was "extremely useful." Carter and Teng then moved back to the Cabinet Room to discuss ways to improve business relations. They came so close to settling the problem of frozen assets ($76 million held by the U.S.; $197 million by the Chinese) that Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal is expected to have little trouble concluding a trade agreement when he goes to Peking...
...Except that not a single coffee bean existed. Companies were set up in the Caribbean and an aging freighter of Panamanian registry was bought for $700,000. The culprits proceeded to pay off anybody who might hinder the swindle. The Justice Department estimates that hundreds of thousands of dollars were paid...
...didn't take the problems of the country with him." The best estimates are that it will take two months to get the oilfields back to export production lev el even if work starts at once. Meanwhile, the country has a paralyzed economy and shattered loan credibility. Except for two to three dozen firms, all of the country's 600 major industries have been shut down by strikes since early December. And, although they may not be missed, most of the once fabled Iranian rich have left the country. Significantly, this includes 120 of the country's 200 leading business...
...important government decisions, the Communists withdrew from an alliance of major parties that had supported the one-party government of Premier Giulio Andreotti in Parliament. Without the backing of the Communist, Socialist, Republican and Social Democratic parties, Andreotti mildly told the Chamber of Deputies, he had no choice except to step down as head of a Cabinet that had lasted for a precarious ten months...