Word: statement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relationship with Mao degenerated. The Chairman complained that Teng rarely consulted him and treated him as a "dead ancestor." In the aftermath of Mao's disastrous Great Leap Forward, Teng tried to reintroduce a measure of private farming to give peasants the initiative to produce more food. In a statement that would later be cited as proof that he was an "unrepentant capitalist reader," Teng declared: "Private farming is all right as long as it raises production, just as it doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice." Mao was not informed...
...would continue their investments, but not everyone was reassured. Said Robert Parker, president of Taiwan's American Chamber of Commerce: "There's no use pretending that normalization on the terms we got won't hurt. It will." Still, Taipei was partially reassured by Washington's statement that more than 50 accords between Taiwan and the U.S., dealing mostly with economic and cultural matters, would remain in effect...
Jerusalem's abrupt rejection of the treaty revisions and its shrill rhetoric shocked U.S. officials. When he read the Israeli Cabinet's statement, reports TIME State Department Correspondent Christopher Ogden, the normally phlegmatic Vance seethed with anger, and a senior U.S. official dismissed one especially nasty phrase in it by snapping: "It does not deserve comment." Another American insisted that the Israeli Cabinet response was filled with "misleading inaccuracies." So upset is the Administration that it may take its case to the public by releasing documents refuting Israel's contentions...
...exchange of ambassadors, and that such an exchange could be indefinitely postponed. Still, Vance was greatly encouraged. He felt that the Israelis would recognize that he had won important concessions from Sadat and therefore react favorably to the trade-offs sought by the Egyptian. Abandoning caution, Vance ventured a statement that, for him, was daring in its finality: "We have finished those two issues." Added the Secretary after arriving in Israel: "We are now in the final stages of the negotiations...
...Cairo. Said a close aide of Dayan's: "Carter will spit in our faces, blaming us for the collapse of the negotiations. The Senators and Administration spokesmen will join in happily. They will hope that we will crawl on all fours to Washington." Israelis were further infuriated over a statement by Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who had just finished a trip to Israel and six other Middle East countries. Byrd warned that Congress "will be reluctant to increase Israeli aid while Israel continues to spend on the proliferation of new settlements on the West Bank...