Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greeks and Turks, ancient enemies,* rushed troops to their 90-mile mutual border along the Evros River and ordered general mobilization, raising the threat of mainland fighting to counterpoint the skirmishes on Cyprus...
Herman Badillo, 44, the only Puerto Rican member of the U.S. House, represents a South Bronx district that consists largely of families with annual incomes close to or below the official poverty mark ($4,550 for an urban family of four). An orphan who came to the mainland at eleven, Badillo earned degrees in accounting and law, in 1965 won a tight race for Bronx borough president. A Democrat, he was first elected to Congress in 1970. He has also run unsuccessfully in two mayoral primaries, and since his real interest is New York City, he can be expected...
Some of the boldface incidents have appeared in print before or were generally known: the agency's loan of B-26 bombers and CIA pilots for the uprising against Indonesian President Sukarno in the late 1950s, the drifting of balloons laden with propaganda over mainland China during the Cultural Revolution, the training of the Dalai Lama's mountaineer troops when they were driven out of Tibet in 1959 by the Chinese Communists. But often the book adds fresh detail. For example, in one of their periodic raids on their homeland, the hardy Tibetans helped resolve a debate that...
...AMERICAN PRESENCE: Personally, I believe that the U.S. is going to pull out of mainland Asia. I think you are going to maintain the old line, or forward defense perimeter, that starts in the Aleutians and runs down through Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines and possibly Singapore. Your anchor will have to be the Philippines. There is no other anchor. Initially Singapore's facil ities will be available. But Singapore's facilities are going to be made available to Russia. Russian warships have been reported serviced and refitted in Singapore. Your military must be watching this...
...came three years ago from south Portugal," Caetano says, "because I don't share the Portuguese government's ideas. And if you don't, you can't do anything. Not many from the Islands come for political reasons, but from the mainland many student-age people leave, although most do not come to the United States...