Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were prompted by two separate skyjackings to Havana last month-four whites seized an Eastern Airlines jet out of Houston (TIME, Nov. 13) and three blacks captured a Southern Airways plane from Birmingham (TIME, Nov. 27). Both groups arrived in Cuba expecting a welcome mat for "revolutionaries" from the mainland. Instead, they were thrown into jail and the $2,000,000 paid in ransom money by Southern Airways was confiscated as evidence for a future trial...
Indeed, it was Castro who called for the current negotiations, in the process tweaking the U.S. with the fact that Americans had accepted as refugees any and all Cubans who stole planes to reach the mainland during the early 1960s, and continue to look the other way when Cuban refugees "borrow" Cuban boats...
...Norwegians, but they were morbidly curious to see Bergman's newest companion. Tourists from Stockholm would take boat trips to the island for a glimpse of Liv; when Bergman built a high stone wall around the house, the tourists countered by bringing light metal ladders along from the mainland. It was the first of several strains that life on Fårö was to entail...
...continuance of the commonwealth on the grounds that it not only provided relief from U.S. taxes but also served as a "great retaining wall" that protected the island's Spanish culture from U.S. influence and domination. Yet he did not hesitate to employ-as did Ferré-mainland political techniques during the campaign. Both candidates hired consultants from Washington and taped endless television and radio spots. Hernández traded in his baggy suits for more modish styles and submitted to the shears of San Juan's leading hair stylist, gambits that helped make him the clear favorite...
Many countries have met the medical challenges of war; North Viet Nam seems to have surmounted them. Despite a blockade and almost daily bombings, the North Vietnamese have one of the best and most extensive healthcare systems on the Asian mainland. Building on what the French left behind 16 years ago, the country has increased its total number of hospitals and infirmaries from 42 to 200, its corps of doctors from 100 to more than 2,000, one for every 1,700 people. (The U.S. has one for approximately every 600.) Hanoi has also made medical care more widely available...