Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME and other once sensible voices hail this rapprochement with mainland China as a coup for Nixon? It is the long-overdue attempt to correct an absurd situation of our own making. Other heads of state have recognized the reality of the People's Republic of China, but none has been credited with a diplomatic victory...
EVEN though it was no great surprise, Secretary of State William Rogers' formal announcement that the U.S. would actively support Peking's admission to the U.N. this fall was a milestone, reversing a policy that had endured since the first attempt to seat the mainland Communist regime 21 years...
...year-round islanders, and some of the 250 summer regulars, saw the imminent demise of the school leading to the end of their island. The nearest mainland classes, where island teen-agers already go, are a 90-minute ferry ride to Portland. "We couldn't put our young ones on the 6:15 morning ferry and ask them to make that trip," says Lobsterman Jim Seymour, father of two grade school kids...
...Blow. Cliff Island could not afford to lose Seymour, or Ben O'Reilly Jr., who plows the heavy winter snows, or Bunk MacVane, Bub Anderson and Bruce Dyer, lobstermen all. Four hundred winter people lived on the island 70 years ago, but residents have been moving to the mainland and its more varied jobs for years. An exodus of the remaining young families would be the killing blow. The post office, the general store, the snow plow and even the daily ferry would stop. The island, still populated by descendants of its 17th century settlers, would become a ghost...
With a year's grace granted by the Portland school committee, the tenacious lobstermen decided to try catching new children on the mainland for their school. O'Reilly's father-in-law found a family with six children willing to make the move. Trouble was, O'Reilly's father-in-law is head of the Portland welfare office, and the family he wanted to import was among his clients. In Maine, a lot of people still believe a man should always earn his own way. The islanders talked and debated and finally made a choice...