Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Figaro: "U.S. influence has shrunk in all directions. It has lost Angola, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Yemen, Afghanistan, Laos, Cambodia and most recently a kingpin in Iran, guardian of the Gulfs oil... the Yankee umbrella has more and more holes in it. The free world now asks itself the question: Must it still count on Americans?" London's Daily Telegraph was no kinder: "There is a nervelessness at the center in Washington coupled with clumsiness at the extremities. Hence the alarming loss of respect...
...change itself is not the enemy. Our concern is twofold. We must work to dampen conflict, to maintain peace, and we must make clear that it is dangerous for outside powers to try to exploit for their own selfish benefits this inevitable turmoil...
...must be very clear about where our true interests lie. In Iran, our interest is to see its people independent, able to develop according to their own design, free from outside interference. In Southeast Asia, our interest is to promote peace and the withdrawal of outside forces, and not to become embroiled in conflict among Asian Communist nations. And, in general, our interest is to promote the health and the development of individual societies, not to a pattern cut exactly like ours in the U.S., but tailored rather to the hopes and the needs of the peoples involved...
...problem was Taiwan, which until last month was recognized by the U.S. as the Republic of China. Under President Carter's agreement to normalize relations with Peking, the recognition of Taiwan must cease, and yet the U.S. was determined to work out some form of pseudodiplomatic relationship. The result was a lawyer's delight. As of March 1, what used to be the government of China becomes an entity officially designated as "the people on Taiwan"; the U.S. embassy in Taiwan becomes the American Institute, a nonprofit organization incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia...
Life is especially hard in the north. Families in Hanoi are permitted only 75 sq. ft. of living space per person-roughly the recommended allowance for prisoners in U.S. federal penitentiaries. Factory hands must work six days a week, and spend the seventh at political meetings or on "volunteer" construction projects. Privately owned automobiles are all but nonexistent, and spare parts for bicycles are in short supply. "There is a great deal of unhappiness," says a Hanoi-based diplomat. "People are starting to complain privately. One of the whispered questions heard most often is an ironic one: 'What...