Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point he made most emphatically was a dramatic one?and one that Moscow expected, and feared, would be his main message to President Carter: that Sino-American rapprochement should be turned into an explicit anti-Soviet alliance. Stressing Sino-American ties, Teng argued that the two nations share a common destiny and should unite with other countries against the Soviet Union. He said that Soviet activities around the Mediterranean littoral, in Africa and in Asia should cause concern to all nations. He derided the value of the proposed SALT II treaty between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and demonstrated...
...daughters the opportunity for an education and good jobs. She has no illusions about returning to the rough but simple life of Khomein a half-century ago. "We know the problems that any modern society faces," says Mrs. Mokhtari. "There is no way that we are going backward. The main trouble was that the government of the Shah was so corrupt. What we couldn't take was injustice...
Stiller's secret-police credentials had cleared him through an inspection by East German guards at the platform gate. Ten minutes after the train arrived, Stiller and his family got off at the Zoological Garden station, the first main stop in West Berlin. From there, waiting West German agents rushed them to Tempelhof Airport. An American military jet flew the three Frankfurt, where West German intelligence agents installed them in a safe house...
...wine, cheese, chestnut tart, fresh fruit and selected Italian wines, the same menu that the other travelers enjoyed. Conferring with him over lunch were Giuseppe Caprio, the No. 2 man in the Vatican Secretariat of State; Agostino Casaroli, the so-called Vatican foreign minister; and Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, the main Vatican liaison to the bishops' meeting...
...during Columbus' second voyage, and here were built the first cathedral and convent in the Western Hemisphere. At the airport, the white-clad Pontiff knelt to kiss the ground. Unexpectedly, four U.S. Cardinals were there to greet him. After a motorcade he celebrated Mass at the main square of Santo Domingo for a crowd of 300,000 or more...