Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alliance with China would also have serious drawbacks. The Chinese have never rid themselves of what Asian critics call their "Middle Kingdom" complex, an attitude that dates back 3,000 years to the days when China considered itself the ideal country, halfway between heaven and earth. Others were backward barbarians, especially the Japanese, whose culture is heavily indebted to China. This prejudice was certainly strengthened by the rape of Nanking and other Japanese wartime atrocities, which the Chinese still recall regularly in propaganda plays...
More than a century ago, when Commodore Perry's warships steamed into Tokyo Bay to "open" Japan to American commerce, Emperor Komei passionately resisted the invasion, but in vain. So it was that Hirohito eventually "inherited from his great-grandfather a mission, which was to rid Asia of white men." As early as 1921, when Hirohito became regent for his ailing father, he organized a cabal of young officers notably including Major Hideki Tojo, to undertake any mission the throne desired. Bergamini insists that two years before the fighting broke out, Hirohito personally "directed his General Staff to plan...
...import surcharge presents a difficult problem of timing. Getting rid of it is a high-priority item for the Europeans and Japanese, whose sales in the lush U.S. market will soon be hurt by the tax. But the Nixon Administration is reluctant to give up the bargaining lever that the surcharge provides, and the President last week hinted that the tax will be around for quite a while. Still, the Europeans' main demand at the moment is reasonable: that the U.S. spell out clearly its conditions for dropping the surcharge. The toughest issue is the size and speed...
...stranded thousands of Cubans who have had to give up their jobs and property to apply for a flight to the U.S. The Cuban government gave no reason for its decision, but there seemed no lack of possible causes. One theory had it that Premier Fidel Castro had got rid of all the opponents he wanted to see depart. Another was that the Soviet Union was displeased with the exodus because it gave Communism a black eye. Cuba might also have been concerned that the airlift was creating a "brain drain" of skilled and professional workers. But a more immediately...
...Toyota, Volkswagen and other import dealers, quickly buying models that would soon become relatively more expensive. "People were still shopping at 11 o'clock at night," said suburban St. Louis Datsun Dealer Ed DeBrecht. Dealers of U.S. cars, on the other hand, were left wondering how to get rid of a huge inventory of 1,900,000 '71 model cars. With prices on the '72 models expected to be almost identical (less excise), the soon-to-be-outdated '71s went begging. They will probably be sold at greater-than-usual discounts...