Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long can the A.J.A.s' political power endure? Today they account for almost 40% of all Hawaii's registered voters, but that percentage should shrink gradually as more and more mainland whites, Samoans and Filipinos migrate to the islands. In any case, A.J.A. politicians have found it necessary to play down their ethnic appeal, both as a balm to non-Japanese and in recognition of the fact that many A.J.A.s, especially young ones, are disinclined to vote on ethnic lines. "There is always this thing about how so-and-so is the first Japanese to become such-and-such...
...resettlement headaches are still far from over. About 33,000 refugees remain in camps on the U.S. mainland. Some, along with 1,500 on Guam, insist on being returned to their homeland. Others are reluctant to be relocated in areas that do not have a Viet Nam-like climate. All the same, the Government's interagency task force on Indochina refugees pledges that all will be in their new homes by Dec. 31, and that meanwhile none will suffer from the fast approaching cold weather. At Indiantown Gap, Pa., one of the three remaining camps...
...arriving at Teesside, England, through a 220-mile pipeline from the Ekofisk field in Norway's sector of the North Sea. The oil belongs to Norway but is being pumped ashore to Britain; a deep undersea trench has prevented construction of a pipeline from Ekofisk to the Norwegian mainland...
...chairman of the meeting favored a hard line. He was "Brother Andrew," a Dutchman who smuggles Bibles into Communist nations. "We can never trust the Communist leaders," he said. "Dialogue is a moral farce." By week's end the group decided to broadcast a friendly statement to the mainland...
Delegates also eagerly traded news about Christian communities that have survived, even thrived, under Mao (TIME, Dec. 16). One participant, former China Missionary Leslie Lyall, soberly suggested that the experiences on the mainland taught an important lesson. Believers in all countries, he warned, should begin memorizing Bible verses in case Christianity had to go underground in their countries as well...