Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter seeks friendship, but he will find grievances...
...concerned" over any Chinese attack on Viet Nam. Teng has warned that Hanoi should be "punished" for invading Cambodia and toppling the Pol Pot regime, which was backed by China. The Administration fears that any Chinese punishment could provoke retaliation from the Soviet Union, which last year signed a friendship treaty with Hanoi. Indeed, the U.S.S.R. has already begun assembling a naval task force of about a dozen warships off Viet Nam's coast...
Bernstein: One of the questions that I have here is whether what has happened in Indochina recently--the conclusion of the friendship and military treaty between Vietnam and the Soviet Union--might not have been avoidable if the United States had taken a somewhat more positive attitude toward Vietnam. One has the sense the Vietnamese have now pushed themselves or rather thrown themselves, into the arms of the Soviets...
...Atlanta's Peachtree Plaza Hotel and an average family in Washington. A U.S. reporter wondered whether the visitors might explore some of the less attractive aspects of life in America. "That's not our plan," replied a Chinese television producer. "Our purpose is to help build friendship between our two peoples." So, instead of accustomed adjectives like "decadent" and "bourgeois," China's press was studded with "fantastics" and "beautifuls...
...friendship between the American people and the Iranian people will grow only if our government refrains from condoning a military coup as a solution to popular opposition to the Bakhtiar government. In this regard, the American government should publicly state that such an alternative, requiring as it would the use of American supplied arms and aircraft, is unacceptable and not in the interest of either our own or the Iranian people. It should state further that such a government could not and would not receive recognition by this country...