Word: expel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote admitting mainland China and expelling Taiwan stung many Americans, but none more than Richard Nixon's vocal constituents of the Republican right. Uneasy about the President's policy since his wooing of Peking began, they exploded in choleric anger as the U.N. resolution confirmed their worst fears. Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona urged the U.S. to withdraw from the U.N. and expel its headquarters to "some place like Moscow or Peking." California's Governor Ronald Reagan cabled Chiang Kai-shek that the U.N. has been "reduced to the level of a kangaroo court." Said Thomas S. Winter, editor...
...word. Liberation forces have killed over 55,000 American troops since 1961 (14,092 since Nixon took office). Each week Vietnamese patriots kill 560 American and Saigon troops. But the price for their stubborn resistance has been high. One and a half million Vietnamese have died trying to expel the American invaders and their fascist puppets. Eight million Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians are homeless. Twenty per cent of Vietnam's land mass has been defoliated by America's war against vegetation...
Three of the university's best-known experts on China yesterday endorsed the U.N.'s decision to expel Taiwan and seat the People's Republic of China...
...other resolution, the key element in the U.S. strategy, requires that any proposal concerning the expulsion of a member be treated as an "important question" necessitating passage by a two-thirds majority. That would make it nigh impossible for Taipei's enemies to muster enough votes to expel the regime...
...booted out. If these threats are carried out, the U.N. would be destroyed. Nixon claims to have no control over the Republican Senate caucus--just as he claimed to have no hand in the Vietnam elections. In his U.N. speech, Rogers put forth the new proposition that to expel Chiang's group from the China seat would evict a "member nation" of 14 million people. He warned that this would set a precedent. "The path of expulsion is perilous. To open it for one would be to open it for many...