Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although they maintain friendly relations with their rebel counterparts in Central America, Nicaragua's new rulers appear too preoccupied by their internal problems to lend much assistance to their cause. They have gone so far as to ask the U.S. to supply them with modern weapons to replace the outmoded arms they used to topple Somoza's regime...
...bringing the arts to a wider public; Rockefeller University President and Nobel Winner Joshua Lederberg for his leadership in the scientific community; General Electric's Reginald Jones for his business leadership; and Patrick Haggerty [general director of Texas Instruments] for his business leadership and his role in helping maintain America's technological leadership...
...allies were also at odds on how to replace the armed, 4,000-man United Nations Emergency Force, whose nine-month mandate to maintain peace in the Sinai was quietly allowed to expire last week in order to avert a Soviet veto in the Security Council. The U.S. proposed a compromise plan-carefully prearranged between Washington and Moscow-to deploy the unarmed observers of the 295-man United Nations Truce Supervision Organization in place of the U.N. Emergency Force...
...American business leaders are caught between human rights provisions and the legal demands of our own Government while trying to maintain their business dealings inside this country," he said...
...craft's appeal is obvious. Windsurf boards cost considerably less and are more portable and easier to maintain than most sailboats. They are as safe as surfboards: since the foam-filled board stops dead and floats when a sailor drops his mast in the water, the Coast Guard has exempted the craft from its usual life-vest requirement. Many lifeguards, in fact, are using the boards as lifesaving and rescue crafts...