Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much so that Democrats fear that his nomination would lead to a fourth-party revolt by the left, thus throwing the election to the Republicans. Warns Eugene McCarthy of a potential Jackson nomination: "I might have to leave the beach [Miami] and go across the causeway to the mainland." By the same token, his views on busing and Vietnamization, among others, are close enough to Nixon's that the G.O.P. worries that he would poach on the President's constituency. Jackson agrees: "For every vote we would lose on the left we would effectively pick...
Good Humor. So far, the palace infighting has had no effect on Peking's foreign policy or on China's more than 750 million people. Recent mainland visitors, among them Old China Hand John S. Service, have left the country strongly impressed by a pervasive atmosphere of good humor and relaxation. But that is not surprising in view of the regime's inclination to keep its internal problems to itself. In fact, the lead item in every Chinese newscast these days is the Afro-Asian table tennis tournament in Peking...
...government has no international legal standing, and Switzerland, which chooses to stay out under its historic policy of absolute neutrality. As for the 14 million people of Taiwan, Peking claims to represent them-just as Taipei claimed somewhat fancifully to represent the more than 750 million people of the mainland...
...CHINA RAPPROCHEMENT: "Mao told me in August 1965 that only the richest country in the world [the U.S.] could come to the help of the poorest [China]. As for Taiwan, I think mainland China and Formosa agreed long ago that Taiwan would become part of Mao's China after the death of Chiang Kai-shek...
...alternative, which some experts predict will happen in as few as five years, is reunification-a euphemism for Peking's takeover. Last week, not for the first time, there were widespread rumors that Chiang Ching-kuo actually visited the mainland recently for secret talks with the Communists. Officials in Taipei once again denied any possibility of a deal with the mainland, but when the elder Chiang departs, even reunification is not inconceivable...