Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon was doing the U.S. a favor. Americans are forgiving and forgetful. Watergate has not faded, but it is hard to maintain a high pitch of anger. A few weeks ago there was a mini-movement to "rehabilitate" Nixon, on the ground that other Presidents had engaged in sleazy activities too-though Watergate with all its ramifications remains unique...
Western experts offer several theories for the massive Soviet buildup: 1) to counter potential trouble along the 4,500-mile border with Russia's Marxist archenemy, China; 2) to maintain hegemony over Eastern Europe; 3) to overcome an "inferiority complex" vis-à-vis the U.S. that was aggravated when Moscow had to back down during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis; 4) to provide additional arms for its adventurous clients abroad...
...trickle of journalists and representatives from Afro-American organizations, willing to make the eight week journey on foot to UNITA bases within central Angola. Impressive reports about the movement filtered out by word-of-mouth accounts from the Namibian Liberation Movement--SWAPO--guerrillas. While SWAPO was forced to maintain a diplomatic alliance with MPLA because of its Soviet backing, SWAPO operated against the South African army (and continues to do so today) from UNITA bases in Southern Angola...
...recognition of the superpower dimension to the Angolan conflict that has prompted many Afro-American groups to organize around the battle cry "Superpowers out of Angola--Government of National Unity" while the liberals and white left maintain "U.S. out of Angola--MPLA." The peculiar instance of black groups supporting the party which the media had tagged as collaborators with the racist South African regime bears special looking into. Black organizations like the now clearly marxist African Liberation Support Committee (ALSC) have begun to take a more prodding look at the facts beyond what is presented in the press. ALSC...
That was hardly enough to maintain the Vidal style, much less Edgewater, which he had bought in 1950. Searching for a way to support himself with his pen, Vidal decided to try writing for television. The Iron Pyrites age had arrived and with it came a voracious demand for new material. Vidal rapidly mastered the demands of the teleplay form and ultimately commanded fees as high as $5,000 for a one-hour script...