Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Abdel Nasser also faces some opposition, but he has managed to open negotiations with the Israelis without forfeiting his prestige with the Palestinian commando organizations. At his seaside retreat in Alexandria, Nasser last week received Al-Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat, whose visit was interpreted as a gesture of continued support. The general speculation in Cairo is that Arafat and other moderate fedayeen leaders will avoid an open break with Nasser until the Egyptian President can determine whether progress can be made in the New York talks...
...government is also gaining support in rural areas. As Thieu told TIME last week: "I think the countryman has more confidence in us today. The Viet Cong are now trying to rebuild their strength in the countryside, but it is too late." Last week Thieu handed out the first titles under a 2.5 million-acre land-reform program designed to gain peasant support...
...overthrow the Diem regime in 1963. The militant group had previously scorned participation in the present government. The fact that they fielded a slate of candidates on the ballot, with the lotus blossom for their symbol, was regarded in Saigon as a return to the legitimate fold. It would support Thieu's claim that electoral democracy is becoming a reality in South Viet...
China has overshadowed Soviet influence among Asian Communists by vigorously supporting Prince Sihanouk's government in exile. Just after the war had spread to Indochina, Chou played host to a unity conference of all Indochinese Communists, and pledged Chinese support until the war is won. Soviet-Japanese collaboration in the development of Siberia gave Chou a chance to play on North Korean fears of revitalized and expanding Japan. As a result, North Korea Strongman Kim Il Sung has recognized Sihanouk's regime and promised...
Japanese mythology once held that earthquakes were caused by movements of a great spider that carried the earth on its back. Mongolians blamed earth tremors on the unsteady support of a giant hog. Early seismologists assumed that the chronic buckling and lunging of the earth's surface was the result of the globe's slow cooling and contraction. Now new instruments and theories are changing what was once a guessing game into precise science. Some seismologists are even saying that accurate prediction of earthquakes is only three to five years away, and that control of quakes...