Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has won every important election, when necessary manipulating the results to assure its victory. Last week a salutory triumph for pluralism unexpectedly broke that pattern. When the votes for elections held in five states were tallied, the National Action Party (PAN) had won nine municipal seats and five legislative seats in the northern states of Durango and Chihuahua. It was the best performance by any opposition party since the PRI was founded in 1929. Declared PAN President Abel Vicencio Tovar: "A change in the political structure of Mexico has begun...
...into place step by step as you go through it." The disease detective's zeal is admired by his superiors. "His is the old hard-work ethic," says Dr. Mitchell Cohen, Holmberg's supervisor. "What we constantly do is pose questions. If one question doesn't pan out, he'll take another approach...
...that basis, the note maintained that Washington's authorization of the renewed flights "ignored China's sovereignty [and] hurt the national feeling of the Chinese people." The note added that Pan Am had "gone back on its commitment [to halt Taiwan nights five years ago] and resumed its service without the consent of the Chinese side." Accordingly, the CAAC demanded consultations with the U.S. "at the earliest possible date" to select a new U.S. carrier without Taiwan connections for the China run. At the same time, the CAAC letter took more direct action, terminating Pan...
...penalties signaled a tough new approach by Peking to the whole matter of U.S. commercial links to Taiwan, but they were not as harsh as some U.S. diplomats had expected. Pan Am has never used the Burma air route, and the loss of Canton for emergency landings is not as dangerous as it sounds, since planes flying into the area always carry enough excess fuel to divert to another city if Hong Kong airport is closed. Significantly, Peking stopped short of terminating the 1980 Sino-U.S. aviation pact and unilaterally banning Pan Am from the mainland, a move that...
...Washington, U.S. officials said that they were "disappointed" by the Chinese move, but they noted that the Government lacked the legal authority to force a U.S. carrier to cease operating a route unless it has broken U.S. law. For now, Pan Am plans to continue flights to both Peking and Taipei. The airline, however, may not be so unhappy if it is eventually barred from China; insiders say that Pan Am has in fact been losing money on its China service. By contrast, the Taiwan route is reckoned to be highly profitable...