Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chose. The Japanese ambassador in Taipei and Taiwan's man in Tokyo continued to fly their national flags. Consulates still issued visas, but now called them "travel permits." While both sides will eventually withdraw representatives (the Japanese estimate a three-to-six-month phase-out), they will retain strong "unofficial" ties. The reason is simple economics. Taiwan's industry, growing at the healthy rate of 10% a year, takes 39% of its imports from Japan...
...fishermen feared competition in their inshore waters from strong British and West German fleets; and environmentalists were concerned that EEC development policies would destroy Norway's natural beauty. They were supported by a diffuse alliance of Maoist youth, Lutheran fundamentalists, mildly leftist university professors, and nationalists determined to retain the independence that Norway acquired from Sweden only 67 years...
Farber's report thus supports the position taken by the Corporation last April to retain the University's stock. In doing so, it is likely to fire once again the anger of the 34 black protesters who occupied Massachusetts Hall...
...dishonor the very existence of the victims. The alternatives are clear. Either the United States can continue its present policy, bomb the hell out of North Vietnam, lose more American pilots to death or prison, and rest assured that after seven years of saying no the communists will stubbornly retain the POWs. Or, we can accept (yes, with honor) the other side's two well-announced conditions--stop U.S. military involvement in North and South Vietnam and cut off all aid to Thieu's regime. If those two conditions are met, the North Vietnamese have promised to release...
...MUST NOT forget that the words are all lies. The POW issue is a fraud. No country at war will release its prisoners until the war is over. Once the Indochina war ends satisfactorily, the North Vietnamese would be inconceivably stupid to retain American prisoners and needlessly inflame American public opinion. The American government, which is engaging in mass terror on an unprecedented scale, likes to point to NLF terror. It is true that the NLF has assassinated carefully selected Saigon officials. It is also true that while the American and Saigon terror have lost support for the perpetrators...