Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anguish about Viet Nam. He was one part the Irishman who wanted to show the flag and another part the scholar who remembered reverently when he had gone to see the ailing Douglas MacArthur and the old general had told him never to get involved in a war on mainland Asia. Kennedy bleated and complained about the news stories out of Viet Nam that ran counter to the cheery calculations of Robert McNamara's Pentagon computers and the bravado of the generals. But he was always tugged by reason and maybe, just maybe, had he lived to face the crunch...
...inference made by your correspondent Peter Range. I have made my home on St. Croix for the past eleven years, and in spite of the recent tragedy, I still love my home and feel 1,000% safer here than I ever could in any major city on the U.S. mainland...
...between Tokyo and Peking two weeks ago was greeted in Taipei with a show of splendid in dignation. It meant, thundered the China News, nothing less than a return to a state of war between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. In recognizing the government on mainland China, the argument went, Japan had to break diplomatic ties with Tai wan and abrogate their 1952 peace trea ty, leaving relations between the two countries right back where they were before that year - in a state...
...Ryan, 50, Congressman from Manhattan who helped found New York's Democratic Party reform movement in the 1950s and who, during the past twelve years in the House, was among the earliest opponents of the war and a staunch advocate of such causes as women's rights, mainland China's admission to the U.N. and reduced military spending; of cancer; in New York City...
...Portuguese argue that the situation is the same in mainland Portugal. The argument essentially is that no self-government in the colonies is all right, because there are no free elections at home...