Word: american
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year since the U.S. extended full diplomatic recognition to Peking and consequently "derecognized" the Republic of China, the abandoned embassy in Taipei has come to symbolize the passing of the American era. Yet Taiwan has demonstrated a robust self-reliance during the past year, and its relationship with Washington has changed far more in form than in substance. Though the formal U.S. presence is gone and its last legal vestige, the Mutual Defense Treaty, is due to expire next week, other links are thicker than ever. "Both sides," says an American resident in Taiwan, "are playing the new game...
...court for the new game is a squat, U-shaped building that formerly housed the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group and is now called the American Institute in Taiwan. The A.I.T., manned by temporarily "retired" Foreign Service officers, hands out as many visas to the U.S. for Republic of China passport holders as did the old U.S. embassy. More important, it serves to nurture Taiwan's ever growing commercial ties with...
...China and the U.S. this year will amount to $1.8 billion. Washington has quietly but systematically encouraged the bilateral trade boom. Among major recent deals: the Export-Import Bank, which sent a delegation to the island this fall, extended $500 million worth of loans during 1979. Since January, American banks have also contributed to a $200 million loan to the Taiwan Power Co. General Electric has joined with Taiwan companies on a $30 million turbine-generators project. Said Robert P. Parker, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan, earlier this month: "We have unhesitatingly reaffirmed our confidence...
Even for great American prose writers, the theatrical muse has been a bitch. Henry James' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's plays were disappointments; Saul Bellow's The Last Analysis lasted less than a month. Thus Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer and Collaborator Eve Friedman find themselves in distinguished company with Teibele and Her Demon, a "fable" for Broadway...
...story has an American rocket ship encountering two curious phenomena in outer space. One is the entrance to the biggest black hole anyone aboard has seen, the other is a large, rather charmingly antique-looking space vehicle parked near it with its lights out. The men of the former craft are absolutely basic: one stalwart captain, one joky copilot, one overdedicated scientist, one slightly shifty civilian and one pretty lady whose function is to be placed in jeopardy. The sole proprietor of the ship they run into is Maximilian Schell, a great long-lost scientist whose ego trips...