Word: retains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardly Happy. Western observers noted that, despite their hard-lining public stand on Viet Nam, the Russians have never been particularly happy about the war there. But to retain credibility in their struggle with Red China for paramountcy in the Communist world and to avoid any sign of weakness, they have flatly rejected appeals from Westerners-especially from Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson last July-to help in launching negotiations that would end the war. "If you want to talk peace," they have said, in effect, "go to Hanoi." For their part, Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of State...
...doom palm, its principal source of income a narrow-gauge railway from Ethiopia to Djibouti's excellent port. Offered its independence in 1958, French Somaliland turned it down, and is now the only French colony in Africa. Three-quarters of the voters in a national plebiscite elected to retain their ties with France...
...agencies have fought valiantly and, it now seems, successfully, to save Tahoe from the fate that has necessitated a long-range antipollution cleanup program for Lake Erie. What has been achieved at Tahoe is the arresting of the life cycle of the lake so that its crystalline waters may retain the remarkable purity that still ranks them far above the federally required drinking standards...
Although Tillinghaft said that this was a possible interpretation, it was important to retain an intellectual link with South Africa; the implication was that if desegregation was pushed too hard, the astronomers would be expelled from the country entirely
Social rules are always a topic of debate in any university context, and the private colleges will always retain the final trump card of being able to say, "if you don't like our rules, go elsewhere." But this ultimate retreat has not been espoused by the Summer School, and this in itself testifies that the administration is still open to suggestions...