Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TAIWANESE legend has it that whenever the muddy Chuo Shui River runs clear, great events follow. Recently, the Chuo Shui ran clear for the first time since 1949, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's shattered armies retreated to Taiwan from the mainland. The event apparently portended this time was Peking's venture in Ping Pong diplomacy and Washington's warm response. One thing is clear besides the water: any real rapprochement between the U.S. and the mainland regime hinges on Taiwan, a verdant island of 14 million people. As Peking's Premier Chou En-lai recently...
...enshrouded in the shaky precedents of international law. The U.S. cannot recognize Peking's claim to Taiwan without disavowing an old ally and denouncing a solemn treaty commitment to defend the island. To uphold Chiang's contention that he represents the 800 million Chinese on the mainland, as well as those on Taiwan, is simply no longer tenable. To recognize the claims of both governments is impossible. The major questions...
China is presently making do with a superannuated collection of 198 Russian and British propeller and turboprop planes. It recently bought four used British Trident jets from Pakistan, but crews to fly them are still in training. The mainland's own aircraft industry is unequipped to make commercial jets. Production is limited to a small number of helicopters and singleengine, ten-passenger biplanes at the State Aircraft Factory in Mukden, and a few four-passenger seaplanes at the Flying Dragon Machine Works in Shanghai...
...economy to flower brightly. Now Puerto Rico is clouded by recession. Once-thriving garment and shoe industries are suffering from foreign competition, agricultural employment has plunged (soaring costs and shrinking markets soured the sugar industry), and the jobless rate has risen to 13%. Migration to the U.S. mainland, which declined during the boom years, is swelling again. The most obvious sign of Puerto Rico's economic malaise-and one of the prime causes of it-is the island's slumping tourist trade...
Bellhopping Mad. The casinos are also quiet. To attract customers, El San Juan, El Conquistador and other hotels offer gambling junkets from the mainland, some including free fares or rooms. That practice was formerly frowned on by Puerto Rican government officials fearful of drawing too many professional gamblers and underworld figures...