Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dozen U.S. officials knew about the agreement, and Carter ordered them to maintain absolute secrecy. The President, during an interview Thursday with ABC's Barbara Walters, gave a deft and disarming response to a question about China. There was no hint that a historic development was imminent...
...week, when asked whether he thought the Shah could survive, Jimmy Carter sounded noticeably guarded, probably more so than he intended. "I don't know," he replied. "I hope so." The U.S. would not get "directly involved," the President emphasized, adding carefully, "We personally prefer that the Shah maintain a major role in the government, but that is a decision for the Iranian people to make." Later, when it became obvious that the President had damned the Shah with faint praise, the White House insisted that U.S. policy toward Iran was not indecisive and had not changed...
...idea of a transition to constitutional monarchy in Iran, with the Shah retaining a unifying, if largely symbolic role. But right now the Administration is refraining from making suggestions; it realizes at last that the Shah is in mortal danger and has his hands full just trying to maintain order...
...ardent hawk on the subject of Soviet expansionism, growled to a U.S. diplomat visiting from Kabul this summer: "You lost Afghanistan." Yet while Taraki has steered his country out of its traditional nonaligned path, he has leavened his pro-Moscow rhetoric with occasional mentions of a desire to maintain ties with the U.S., which continues to provide aid to Kabul. TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Lawrence Malkin, who was in the Afghan capital last week as Taraki left for Moscow, reports that the country probably presents as many problems as opportunities to its new rulers and their Soviet allies...
...federal courts have canceled the exemptions of more than 100 schools, many of them Southern "white flight" academies. Last August the IRS proposed a new racial test of its own for those schools that have grown rapidly or been created following desegregation. The service said that a school could maintain its tax exemption if it had enough minority students and suggested that an appropriate guideline would be one-fifth of the minority percentage in the community. For example, if 25% of the schoolchildren living within a district's boundaries belonged to minorities, then a private school located in that...