Word: soils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even-handedness has been an aim of the Administration since its recognition of Peking. Promised Carter two weeks ago: "We will be cautious in not trying to have an unbalanced relationship [with] China and the Soviet Union." But his willingness to let Teng denounce the Soviets on U.S. soil and the use of the buzzword hegemony will now make that balancing act more difficult. Just how much was a subject of disagreement. A White House aide insisted that Carter believes there will be no effect on U.S.-Soviet relations...
...reporters milled about, the frail old man, wearing a black turban and ankle-length robes, stepped out of the aircraft's door into the chill February morning. His back hunched, he clutched the arm of an Air France purser as he walked down the portable ramp to touch Iranian soil. After 15 years in exile, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. 78, spiritual leader of a revolution that has been building to a frightening climax, had come home at last. The moment was, conceivably, the start of a new era for a country that has seemed dangerously out of control...
...departing, he thanked the French government for its hospitality and the French people "who have followed with interest the struggle for freedom of conscience and the way of democracy desired by all clear-minded Iranians." Annoyed by the Ayatullah's rejection of their pleas that he not use French soil to foment revolution in Iran, officials in Paris were quite happy to see him go. Would Khomeini be welcomed back if he had to go into exile again? Said one ranking diplomat dryly: "We certainly wouldn't object if he were to distribute the benefit of his spiritual presence...
...directed against the interests of any other country," and that he would like "to welcome President Brezhnev to our country in the near future." U.S. officials are hoping that Teng, having aimed a heavy salvo at Moscow in his TIME interview, will hold his fire while on American soil. As one State Department observer put it: "Teng's too smart to abuse hospitality...
...walked, arms extended, off the aircraft and quickly fell to his knees to kiss the Mexican soil. The first people to greet him were Mexico's President José López Portillo and his wife. Under the nation's anticlerical protocol, the Pope was an "unofficial" guest, and the President gave him a handshake instead of a warm Latin embrace. No matter. It seemed as if at least half of the 13 million people who live in greater Mexico City had turned out to welcome him with an overwhelming display of warmth. Along his motor route, there...