Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Communist government sign an armistice or in some other manner pledge to refrain from military operations against Formosa, the last reason for nonrecognition and nonadmission will have been removed. When, under such conditions, Peking adopts normal attitudes toward foreign nationals, liberates them from her jails and permits their exit, when the usual facilities for the functioning of diplomatic representatives are provided in Peking, the time will have come to revise our position on recognition and admission...
...Hasty Exit. The guests were, however, reminded of their party's recent ill fortunes by the unusual performance of Richard Graves, last year's unsuccessful nominee for governor of California. Soon after the dinner began, Graves breezed in through a side door. When the crowd applauded, Graves beamed, nodded, waved, and proceeded to the head table, where he had not been invited to sit. He made his way down its length, shaking each and every right hand, until, near the end of his tour, he slipped, tried desperately to balance himself, failed, and jammed his arm through...
...People's Republic of China recognizes that Americans ... who desire to return to the U.S. are entitled to do so." Out of Red China will come 41 U.S. citizens-including 26 victims of long jail terms and three of house arrest, eleven who have long been denied exit permits, all illegally detained. For their release the U.S. made a down payment. It agreed that India might enquire into the cases of any of the 117,000 Chinese in the U.S. who might claim to the Indian embassy that they are being prevented from going home. Objects of Captivity...
...mourning wreath ("For Brothers Murdered By Bolsheviks"), and a husky demonstrator poked his fist through one of the car windows before word got around that the passengers were not Russians at all, but Mounties in civilian clothes. After that, the forewarned welcoming committee whisked the Russians through a side exit to well-guarded hotel rooms...
...American Chamber of Commerce in Korea, a group so constantly harassed that it no longer loses its temper easily, last week uttered a cry of rage. In a bitter telegram to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, it said that some 40 U.S. businessmen have been denied exit visas, and are "held as individual hostages" by the South Korean government until heavy new corporate taxes are paid. Some companies "have been notified of ROK intent to seal offices and impound assets" if they fail to pay "exorbitant sums labeled tax, but not implied by Korean tax laws...