Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Much gratitude is owed to the members of the U.S. Ping Pong team. Because of their friendly reception in Red China, we will hopefully be able to ease the tensions of more than two decades. Thanks is also due President Nixon, who acted swiftly to thaw relations with Red China. Premier Chou En-lai has stated that he would like to visit the U.S. Let's hope that if he does come, he will receive the same friendly greeting that the Ping Pong team received...
...Republic of Korea) forces. South Korean pilots are already flying a new squadron of Phantoms, and a plant is being built to manufacture M-16 rifles. But the South Koreans, who have made anti-Communism into a state religion, have been further upset by the possibility of a diplomatic thaw between the U.S. and China. Most South Korean voters felt that Park was best prepared to cope with the changing situation...
Questioned about the thaw in U.S. relations with Communist China, Nixon surprised the audience by announcing, "I hope and I expect to visit mainland China sometime and in some capacity...
...Harvard China specialists have described the current thaw in Sino-American relations as inevitable and long-overdue, but surprising nevertheless...
...film. The Last Valley wanders into confusion. Caine leaves Sharif in charge of the town, and Sharif, too "humane" to kill the priest and the merchant, falls prey to their machinations. A cogent ambivalence is presented but finally discarded: Caine has advocated the burg's destruction during the spring thaw, feeling that its inhabitants were under the thumbs of their traditional leaders, and that it would merely become a refuge for future foes. Sharif-perhaps enchanted by the mere physical beauty-opposes him. Caine is finally ambushed, which would have proved him correct, and pointed to the need for constant...