Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graver problem is the pervading sense of anomie, a social disintegration that has created a breach with mainland supporters, including other Indian groups. The invasion euphoria was inevitably dissipated by the exigencies of day-to-day survival. Then tragedy happened a few months after the occupation when the eight-year-old daughter of the group's chief spokesman, Richard Oakes, fell to her death down a three-story stairwell. Already under suspicion because of his handling of donations, Oakes left the island...
...arrival in the White House was welcomed with particular warmth in Taipei. After all, the former Vice President was well known as a vigorous antiCommunist, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek naturally expected him to continue Washington's longstanding policy of isolating the Red government on China's mainland. Of late, however, the warmth has turned to deep dismay over the Nixon Administration's increasingly friendly gestures toward the mainland government...
...their part, Chiang and his government are deeply disturbed by Nixon's approach. A two-China policy damages the Chiang regime's vestigial claim to be the legitimate government of all China. Ever since the Nationalists arrived on Taiwan as refugees from the mainland in 1949, the regime's status as an embattled government in exile has served to justify its tight, autocratic rule of the island. The 2,000,000 mainlanders enjoy a number of political and economic perquisites, but the 12 million native Taiwanese have only token representation in the Taipei government. The change...
...years, four gilded bronze horses have majestically guarded St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice. The horses survived Napoleon's looting armies and two world wars, but not the dirty air generated by petrochemical plants on Venice's mainland. The bronze is now so pitted and weakened that the horses must be removed from St. Mark's Square. Humans are removing themselves as well. The young in particular are fleeing, and Venice may soon resemble a crumbling geriatric ward...
...island gives as awesomely as it takes. Located 103 miles offshore, its pipelines stretch thousands of yards across the ocean floor. Drawing from seven big reservoirs 7,000 ft. beneath the primordial ooze of the gulf, it can pump 28,000 bbl. of crude oil to the mainland each day through its 7-in. pipeline...