Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taiwan. Carter pressed him for explicit assurances that China would not use force to unify the island with the mainland. Teng refused, later telling reporters: "We will try our very best by peaceful means to bring about the return of Taiwan to the mainland ... If we are to commit ourselves to not using armed force at all, it would be the equivalent of tying up our own hands [in any negotiations with the Nationalists...
...brief seeks to prove that Nudel did not commit a crime under Soviet law, "but we expect the Soviet will be more affected by political considerations than the legal merits of our argument," Artz said. Rep. Robert F. Drinan (D-Mass.) and Rep. Patricia S. Schroeder (D.-Col.) signed the petition at Artz's request because the Soviets will pay more attention to congressmen," she said...
...judicial immunity: "An aura of deism is essential for the maintenance of respect for the judicial institution." The judge's claim of something like divine right worked: last March, the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 3, that a judge could act maliciously, exceed his authority and even commit "grave procedural errors" and still be immune to personal-damage suits. Judges must be free to follow their own convictions, said the court, though Justice Potter Stewart dissented: "A judge is not free, like a loose cannon, to inflict indiscriminate damage...
...back to the farm for stealing a pickup truck. Little Bruce was despondent because he had been planning to marry his girlfriend, pretty Robin Miller, 15, who lived on a farm in nearby Oxford. But he resolved to follow the family maxim: "Do your time or don't commit the crime...
...February from Texas Financier Joe L. Allbritton, found the paper's condition to be shakier than anticipated. The Star was $10 million in the red in 1978, and losses of $16 million were projected for 1979. Last October the Star's management announced that Time Inc. would commit $60 million to a five-year program aimed at making the paper profitable, but only under a condition: the paper's eleven unions had to replace their unexpired contracts with new five-year agreements allowing management greater flexibility and to take cost-saving measures. If the new contracts were...