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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...across the prosperous, 250-mile-long island that lies 100 miles off the mainland coast. Farmers, taxi drivers and businessmen all nervously ask American visitors about the Carter Administration's timetable for recognition of Peking. Universities have been running newspaper ads offering translating services so that Taiwanese can express their worries to Washington in English; in recent weeks 142,000 such letters have been sent to the White House and Congress. Instead of warning smokers about health dangers, packs of Taiwanese cigarettes carry a chin-up slogan: "Maintain self-respect and self-strengthening: stay calm in the face...
...summoned to the State Department; there he was deliberately shuffled off to hear a stern lecture on the "illegality" of the newly announced settlements from Under Secretary Philip Habib, rather than from Cyrus Vance, with whom Dinitz usually deals. In Jerusalem, U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis called on Begin to express the same concerns. Begin listened to the U.S. complaints, but then insisted that he had merely been carrying out some campaign pledges. That explanation may help Begin with his admiring local public, but it does little to calm Washington's growing unease about his government-and nothing...
...Panamanian support for the treaty I shall ask every person to vote, to express himself on the new treaty. We already have begun the massive registration of every Panamanian. It is true that I would prefer a generation of Castristas [Castro-types] to a generation of castrados [castrated ones]. They may vote no, but I want them to vote. I have faith that my people will vote for the right thing...
Christian tradition holds that Christ is the second Person of the Trinity, who became God in human flesh. The seven theologians consider this belief "a mythological or poetic way of expressing [Jesus'] significance for us," not literal truth. The old doctrine was formulated to express faith in Jesus within a Greco-Roman culture, the authors contend, but in modern times it just will...
...sets and washing machines. And the Senate energy committee voted last week not just to tax but to forbid outright, beginning with the 1980 models, the sale of autos that do not get at least 16 m.p.g. Pondering these results, some of Carter's energy planners now express an ironic regret: they wish that they had sent Congress a tougher package...