Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much mistreated and oft-massacred Indians of Brazil are an endangered human species. Almost their only guarantee of survival is the lands reserved for them by law, largely in the Amazon region, where many of these primitive tribesmen pursue a Stone Age way of life. Under the guise of "emancipating" the Indians, the Brazilian government has begun to remove their historic tribal lands from federal protection; last week a decree was sent to President Ernesto Geisel that ends official protection and gives the Indians title to their land. The rationale was that it would put the Indians on the same...
Unlike the new PATS, NOW accounts have been tried and proved by banks and other thrift institutions in the six New England states for several years, with impressive results. The region's biggest bank, Boston's First National, attracted NOW depositors from all 50 states and some 70 foreign countries. In fact, about 20% of the funds in the bank's NOW accounts come from depositors outside of Massachusetts. Says Kenneth Rossano, senior vice president at the bank: "Nationwide NOW accounts are inevitable...
...GOALS that the U.S. has in the region are buried beneath the weight of the Carter administration's big-power calculus. The paramount U.S. interest in Indochina today is stability to preserve the non-socialist regimes that remain, and stability to insure the safety of Japanese and American trade throughout the region. But without normalization the United States forfeits its influence in the area. As a Congressional Research Service study noted, "Vietnam is essential to any regional arrangement for resolving conflicts and preserving peace in Southeast Asia...
...diplomats repeat, in an updated, streamlined, fully modern form, the same mistake of seeing Vietnam as a pawn of the Superpowers that got the U.S. involved in the war in the first place. During the war the U.S. sought to "save" the South to "contain" China. Now the whole region is seen only as a playpen for the client nations of the two Communist superpowers. The legitimate bilateral concerns that the U.S. and Vietnam might share are neglected...
...Asia's principal industrial power. For Peking, the treaty served a dual purpose. It virtually guaranteed vital Japanese support for China's new and vastly ambitious plans for modernization. At the same time, it was a stunning geopolitical victory over the Soviet Union in the strategic northern Pacific region...