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Loud dissensions from the Brown ranks against referees' decisions spiced the game. The referees had to expel both Brown coach George Goedtz and one of his players for ungentlemanly remarks...
...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...
...Assembly, the U.S. and its energetic allies from Japan argued that the China issue was a matter of membership. Peking should be admitted, the Americans argued, but there was no justification for expelling the Taipei regime, even if both governments did claim to be the sole legitimate representative of China. The pro-Peking forces argued that it was merely a question of credentials. If both Mao and Chiang claimed to rule all of China, only one could be right. Accordingly, they maintained, Peking, obviously in control of most of China, should be given the seat; the Nationalists, losers...
...element in the U.S. strategy was its resolution calling for any move to expel the Nationalists to be treated as an "important question," needing the approval of two-thirds of the voting members to pass the General Assembly. Though almost everyone agreed that Peking should be offered a seat this year, many delegations?or so the U.S. reckoned?would be extremely reluctant to put the Nationalists over the side at the same time. The question was: Could the U.S. muster the simple majority of votes necessary to pass the important-question resolution in the first place...
...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...