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...thus accelerate the trend toward U.S. accommodation with Peking. As one Nationalist official puts it, the great fear is that ultimately "a two-China policy might lead to a one-China policy." By that he meant a situation under which the U.S. would allow, if not openly sanction, a Peking takeover of Taiwan...
...mostly Arab-were expropriated for the housing. "No Arab land was taken that was being put to any use," insists Mayor Kollek. "It was all rock, unusable for agriculture. We've tried to build in a reasonable way." Nevertheless Arab owners refuse to accept payment because this would sanction Israel's right of eminent domain...
...Boston, David, 36, a divorced architect, and Sarah, 29, a researcher for a consulting firm, have an "arrangement"; like an increasing number of other American couples, they live together in David's Cambridge walkup apartment in a "marriage" that has endured solidly for two years without benefit of legal sanction. They sometimes join David's ex-wife and his son, Jonathan, 5, for dinner. Bubbly, attractive Sarah still maintains her own apartment and sometimes spends a few days there...
...research agreement between the University and an external sponsor must have obtained some form of sanction in advance to insure that it con-forms to University principles and doesn't conflict with the rights of others...
When 300 black students from Cambridge High and Latin and Rindge Technical School marched on Frisoli's office this fall to protest his refusal to sanction their Black Student Union, formed last spring during disruptions at the high school, Frisoli called in police...