Word: misreadings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon seems to have misread the Chinese mood on the Taiwan question if he is serious about the "Two China policy" he pushes so vigorously at the UN. Perhaps he gives full diplomatic pressure to this empty policy in hopes of defeating Peking's entry this year so he may have a stronger bargaining position during his trip. This also would explain Kissinger's upcoming trip: during the UN debate, Kissinger can obtain some deal. One formula widely speculated upon would return Taiwan to Peking upon Chaing's death. Until that time, Chaing would remain free to keep intact...
Yahya, however, had misread the political tempers. When East Pakistan's charismatic Sheik Mujibur Rahman won his stunning majority in the December election, the hard-liners began telling Yahya, "I told you so." Six leading generals-including General Abdul Hamid Khan, an old chum of Yahya's who is the current army chief of staff, and Tikka ("Red Hot") Khan, the coldblooded commander in East Pakistan -helped persuade Yahya to deal harshly with the East's "treachery...
...contemporary Senators tends to confuse rather than illuminate their stance. "They earnestly believe that there are limits to America's power," he writes in Isolationism in America, "and that to overstep these limits means courting failure and nuclear war. To call the course they propose isolationism is to misread both the history of the '30s and the record of American foreign policy prior to that time...
...also feels that he has performed a moral service to Claire by warning of her boyfriend's dallying with another maiden. Jerome has obviously misread the boy's action, but the morality of the betrayal is left ambiguous. As long as his characters are happy, Rohmer...
...viewed as an easy propaganda victory for China and one, moreover, that undercut Taiwan. After his views leaked out, Agnew aides denied that there was any disagreement between the Vice President and his boss-though clearly there had been. If Agnew hoped to gain politically, he had badly misread the mood of the nation, which heavily favored Nixon's steps toward detente with China. The conservative Detroit News, for instance, which normally supports Agnew, dismissed his dissent as the "nihilism of a know-nothing nabob...