Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them seemed to think that Communist China did not exist. Yet at the conference, called "Love China '75," some delegates talked about Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai almost as if they were their old friends. Remarked one delegate: "For the first time, Chinese Christians outside the mainland are seeing the Chinese not as 800 million blue ants but as human beings...
...proponent of the theory of continental drift; in Englewood, N.J. Kay's reconstruction of continental movements in 1948 showed that the boundaries of North America were delineated over 400 million years ago by undersea volcanic upheaval. He also predicted that Japan would one day merge with the Asian mainland. An organizer of the 1967 Gander conference on continental drift, Kay was honored with the Geological Society of America's top award...
These days the talk is likely to turn quickly to the question of independence. As mainland Portugal drifts toward leftism, the conservative Azorians are beginning to think so seriously about establishing a breakaway nation that some are already calling the islands the Atlantic Republic of the Azores and Madeira...
...momentum. Mimeographed sheets demand: "Out with the political dogs, out with the oppressive parasites, out with the sailors, out with the Communists and officers." In June, when 3,000 people on São Miguel Island protested the low prices that farmers were getting for their milk from the mainland, the demonstration turned into a minor rebellion; the rioters seized the radio station and Huberto Delgado Airport and held them for six hours...
...clandestine organization with no single known leader, the F.L.A. gets its support mostly from middle-class and wealthy islanders. Their complaints center on two points: 1) that Azorians are not only patronized by the mainland Portuguese as dumb country cousins, but also pay higher taxes and higher prices than the "continentals," and 2) that the Lisbon government is drifting too far to the left. In last April's election, the Azores gave the centrist Popular Democratic Party 60% of the vote, the Socialists 25% and the Communists less than...