Word: formalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration is prepared to oblige on all three counts, as long as nothing really changes. For six years, the U.S. has been dealing with two Chinas while formally recognizing one China, Taiwan. Washington is willing to shift its formal recognition from Taiwan to Peking only on the condition that Taiwan's independence and close ties with the U.S. be preserved...
Even if a deal with the Communists can be worked out, the act of transferring formal recognition from Taipei to Peking would raise a host of legal and legislative problems. The U.S. is tied to Taiwan by 59 bilateral treaties and agreements, plus many more multilateral ones. How many of these pacts could or should survive "derecognition"? What new legislation would be required to keep them in force? How could the U.S. continue to supply arms to a government whose legitimacy it no longer formally recognizes? Government lawyers have been preparing briefs on these and other questions, and the State...
...gone to Tokyo for the formal ratification of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, ending the technical state of war that has existed between the two countries since Japan invaded China in 1931. The agreement restored full political, economic, cultural and diplomatic relations, thus marking the end of a half century of enmity between the world's most populous country and Asia's principal industrial power. For Peking, the treaty served a dual purpose. It virtually guaranteed vital Japanese support for China's new and vastly ambitious plans for modernization. At the same time, it was a stunning geopolitical victory...
...same time be prepared to have you dropping in at all hours of day and night in a way. that Harvard professors, with casual attitudes to first names but rigid ones to office hours, would find quite intolerable. The same student who will don a tuxedo for formal dinner parties and acquiesce in the "sub-fusc" of 3-piece suit, bow-tie, white shirt and gown that Oxford students are required to wear for Finals, may be an ardent devotee of new-wave and disco music. Latin grace at formal dinner in an often centuries-old college hall will...
...Faculty Staff Union (FSU), the negotiating body representing the faculty of the UMass Boston campus, distributed leaflets outside the ceremonies at Faneuil Hall. The leaflets cited the "administration's intransigence" as the reason the faculty withdrew from mediated negotiations last week. The demonstration had no effect on the formal ceremonies inside the hall...