Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before a state commission investigating Communism during the McCarthy era. She denounced the commission and refused to testify. "I simply told them that my business was none of their business." In 1962, while attending a disarmament conference in the Soviet Union, she wangled a Chinese visa and visited the mainland...
...Nationalist followers from the mainland in 1949. The Chinese Communists will not abruptly change their nature or their goals. Even so, all kinds of heady possibilities and difficult questions were suddenly in the air. What role would China assume as a no longer isolated power? Would the Russians get mad? Could the U.S. start playing Peking against Moscow? (A dangerous but almost irresistible thought.) Would global geometry turn into a triangle of Washington, Moscow and Peking? Or into a quadrangle, counting Tokyo? Would China's attitude affect the Vietnamese war? Most of the answers could not possibly become clear...
...oilman, when asked if the war would hinder development of Vietnam's offshore oil, said, "Why should it? The supply can be done from Singapore if necessary." Once in production, offshore wells can feed tanker ships directly. The oil can be carried off without ever touching base with the mainland...
Meanwhile, mainland Indian groups, whom the islanders tend to brand as "brainwashed" by whites, hope to win a 99-year lease from the Government. They are somewhat at a loss as to how to deal with their recalcitrant brothers. The occupants' militant stance is defiantly summed up by Hastings: "The white snakes have eaten everything from the earth. We will never give Alcatraz back to them. And if they try to force us, we will fight to the death to keep our land...
...entitled Facts You Should Know to Appreciate Fully the ALOHA STATE! The purported facts: Hawaii's air, water and land are being seriously contaminated by auto exhaust, raw sewage and overuse of pesticides, and "the cost of living in Hawaii is at least 20% higher than on the mainland...