Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peace-keeping organization that would maintain order and oversee a plan to create a new, mixed Rhodesian force composed of some elements of the present Rhodesian army and the Patriotic Front forces...
...running newspaper ads offering translating services so that Taiwanese can express their worries to Washington in English; in recent weeks 142,000 such letters have been sent to the White House and Congress. Instead of warning smokers about health dangers, packs of Taiwanese cigarettes carry a chin-up slogan: "Maintain self-respect and self-strengthening: stay calm in the face of adversity...
...Nationalist regime established in Taipei by Chiang Kai-shek when he fled the mainland in 1949 has become a diplomatic Ishmael. Since 1971, when Taiwan was expelled from the U.N. to make room for Peking, a total of 39 countries have severed relations with Taipei. Today only 23 nations maintain diplomatic relations, and the U.S. and staunchly anti-Communist Saudi Arabia are the only heavyweights among them...
Taiwan has taken care to maintain relations with its trading partners who have cut off formal ties through the establishment of quasi-official trade and cultural offices. By far the most important of these "private" relationships is with Japan, whose so-called Interchange Association with Taiwan is staffed by Foreign Office officials on "temporary leave." Japan does more business with Taiwan today than before it broke with Taipei and established relations with Peking...
Then why all the jitters over a possible break with the U.S.? Some experts maintain that the abrogation of the American defense commitment to Taiwan would result in a scenario in which an emboldened Peking would attempt to frighten foreign companies and investors away from the island by threatening economic reprisals or military action. "If some people are scared off," says one top government official, "the economic consequences for us could be disastrous...