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Word: pendular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the unsettling new shape of world diplomacy and, in some countries, about the future state of ties with the U.S. London read the communique as an indication of a further loosening of America's traditional links to Europe; to many Europeans, it seemed also to foretell a pendular swing of U.S. attention back to the kind of overfascination with China that prevailed up through the Roosevelt years. Moscow darkly suggested that the communique was only "the tip of an iceberg." Saigon puzzled unhappily over the fact that, unlike Japan and South Korea, South Viet Nam was given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Cheers in Peking,Trauma in Taiwan | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

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