Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those specters will probably push the two sides to a solution--this time. But other flash points abound. Already there are bitter disputes about cargo flights over the Pacific, complete with threats not to let each other's planes land, and an Eastman Kodak demand that Washington punish Japan for...
Not only did Conant manage the University as its students rapidly marched off to war, both of his sons, James and Ted, were serving in 1945 in the Pacific. At the same time, Conant's wife Patty was working with returned wartime casualties in the psychiatric ward of a local...
"[She] had two brothers in the Pacific," Keenansays. "She felt she had to do something. I've hadtremendous respect for her ever since.'
Because his training ended only two months before V-E Day and just six months before Japan's surrender, Hiestand did not see combat directly. He served as an assistant supply officers in the Pacific on a CVE III aircraft carrier dubbed the Vella Gulf.
Before last week, Washington insisted the ties with Beijing had actually steadied over recent months. "We try to maintain momentum, acknowledging that it will be a sweet and sour relationship," says Winston Lord, a former U.S. ambassador to Beijing and now Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific...