Word: presented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what seems permanently frozen collapse. No sign of pork-barrel public works or decor (beyond merciful provision for human excretion), no Carter statues yet, no rumors of veiled Saudi peanut takeovers. And any conversation with a longtime resident is likely to reveal that, under some genuine annoyance with the present, the spiritual structures of the past are standing, for better or worse, and straining to survive till Jimmy is a private citizen (six years at most) and Plains can be a farming town again, with a few dollars now and then from hell-bent consumers of presidential history...
...resting purple earth; gentle folded hills on which naked hardwoods are swallowed in tall pines black in winter green; slow wheeling buzzards, hawks stalled above like statues of hawks, long crepe ribbons of starlings drifting south. The fact that crucial landmarks from the formative years of a man of present immense world power are spaced round at intervals with no signposts may come to seem trivial in the uninsistent grandeur of the place itself, the inhuman place...
...significance is mainly reflected in the normalization of relations between China and the U.S. [Because I am] going there this time as one of China's leaders, the exchange of views with President Carter and other leaders will, of course, be of benefit. Particularly at the present time, the world is quite untranquil and we are faced with a lot of problems. Not only during this visit but in the future as well, it will be beneficial to have the leaders of the U.S. and China frequently contact each other and exchange views. As for the significance of normalization between...
Khomeini wants to abolish the monarchy and replace Bakhtiar's government with a religiously oriented Islamic republic under his rule. He said Thursday the present leadership is illegal "and if they continue, they must be put on trial...
Bakhtiar, who has rejected Khomeini's demands that he resign, said yesterday in a state radio broadcast that he would like to meet with Khomeini to "find a political solution to the present problems of the country...