Word: orbited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other problems orbit around the central Taiwan question. To the People's Republic, this point is an unnegotiable demand. They see Chaing as a deposed civil war dictator. Not only is America's support of the Chaing clique an attempt at insurrection, but, more crucially, Americans occupy Chinese soil. Due to the past hundred years of humiliation at the hands of foreign conquest, Mao and Chou can find no better issue to galvanize overwhelming domestic support...
...position in the BND, the West German equivalent of the CIA, for ten years was a double agent who supplied the Soviets with the names of West German agents in the East, codes, dead-letter drops and courier routes. He all but wiped out BND operations in the Soviet orbit. To keep him above suspicion, Moscow regularly gave him important secrets concerning East Germany to feed to his unsuspecting West German employers; he was so valuable that the KGB even allowed him to betray a lesser Soviet spy to Bonn...
Dictatorship and Delicatessen. Sir Lew's orbit extends far beyond Britain. He was one of the first to see the potential in filmed TV programs-as opposed to live ones-shot relatively cheaply in Britain and syndicated around the world. His first production, the 1954 series Robin Hood, is still being rerun in Poland, Kuwait, New Zealand and many other countries. Over the years, he has sold more than 100,000 hours of programming to 104 countries-"everything but the weather forecast," he told TIME Correspondent Christopher Porterfield. Among his recent exports to the U.S. are the Tom Jones...
...research, NASA officials announced that the two nations were planning a joint space mission that could come as early as 1974. The most likely first step, Americans and Soviet planners decided, will be to dock an Apollo spacecraft with a Russian space station similar to the Salyut now in orbit. Following this, the space scientists envision a link-up between a Soyuz spacecraft and an American Skylab scheduled for launch...
...years roving the U.S. aboard a motorcycle. He has now decided to settle down, and to help in the search for a permanent spot, he has outfitted a van in which he parks his cycle. "My van," he explains, "is like a command module that I use to orbit the big cities. Then I dip in and out of the city, inspecting each possible site, using my bike like...