Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Califano emphasized that launching the studies does not reflect any new alarm. Nor did he back off from estimates that the accident will add only one cancer death to the 325,000 expected in the region's population of 2 million. Despite the HEW chiefs reassuring words, the atmosphere in the Three Mile Island area remains charged with emotion...
...role at the end of June, two months earlier than he originally intended. This burst of energy in his new assignment caused some concern in Washington that as a confessed novice in the nuances of Middle Eastern diplomacy, Strauss might complicate U.S. problems in this sensitive region, especially as Palestinian autonomy talks got under...
...bill "illegal and immoral" and "a terrible thing for the people of Alaska." Udall sharply disagreed, noting that the federal lands left untouched by the bill are "twice the size of California and can be used as they please by the 400,000 people of Alaska." Referring to the region covered by the bill, Udall added: "The 220 million people of America are entitled to the preservation of the last great areas of wild beauty...
Colombian officials had heard such tales before. The Guajira region where Spradley and McLemore landed is rich in marijuana-most of America's pot comes from there (TIME, Jan. 29, 1979)-and for months the army has been cracking down on clandestine flights from the U.S. that swoop in, load up and head north. The Colombians were particularly skeptical when Spradley admitted he could not remember the name of the airport he had taken off from, or his Venezuelan destination, or the company for which he was supposedly working. The missing McLemore, he said, had all the details...
...role in the region: I feel that the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty was important to the Republic of China [Taiwan] and also to the U.S. For the good of the U.S. as well as the republic, this treaty should be kept in effect. But President Carter has already announced his intention to terminate it at the end of this year. Congress has passed the Taiwan Relations Act, saying that the U.S. continues to be concerned about the security of the republic. I think that is very important in terms of the U.S. strategic position in this part...