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The chief posthumous beneficiary of the celebrations may turn out to be Liu Shaoqi (Liu Shao-chi), the former Chinese head of state who was Mao's main rival in the power struggle of the early 1960s and who reportedly died in disgrace in 1969. There were signs that...
Challenging his fellow Afrikaners to "adapt or die," Botha announced last week that he would seek new laws permitting black workers who do not have permanent resident status in white areas to organize trade unions. He also proposed changes that would permit blacks to eat in white restaurants and qualify...
Also envisioned are changes in so-called "grand apartheid," the long-range plan to divide South Africa into a constellation of ten "independent" tribal enclaves scattered across a surrounding white territory, which includes 84% of the country. Three such homelands (Transkei, BophuthuaTswana and Venda) have already received their nominal freedom...
The Japanese Foreign Ministry expressed its "serious concern" over the island force and "the hope" that the Soviets would withdraw it for the sake of "neighborly relations." Soviet Ambassador to Tokyo Dmitri Polyansky, however, rejected the protest as a "reckless act of interference in Soviet internal affairs." That added insult...
If the Soviet Union had pressed for the release of hostages and a cease-fire around Sept. 10, the gain for the fedayeen would have been massive; the authority of