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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply stayed on. Although they are illegal aliens, it is unlikely that courts would permit many of them to be expelled. One reason: thousands came to the U.S. at the Shah's expense. If they were repatriated to their homeland, they would face certain punishment, and possibly death...
...rith and other experts on the K.K.K. But after a decade of dormancy, the Klan in the past year has grown steadily more belligerent and violent. Two weeks ago, Klansmen and their sympathizers attacked an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, N.C., shooting to death four white men and a black woman, all of them members of the Communist Workers Party, formerly known as the Workers Viewpoint Organization...
...other four men denied renomination by their party in our 203 years were John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson and Chester Arthur all raised to power by the death of a President, thus lacking the party loyalty that elected incumbents usually acquire. So if Kennedy does take the nomination away from Carter, it will be quite an extraordinary chapter in the thin annals of presidential denial...
Well, not quite. Still, Park had totally dominated the country for 18 years, and many citizens had feared his abrupt death would spell instant chaos. Yet there had been no panic, no runs on banks, no scrambles to hoard food. Instead, the prosperous capital city of Seoul (pop. 8 million) quickly pulsated back to normal life. The economy, despite 20% inflation, continued to chug along toward a record export target of $15.5 billion this year...
During the next five days, at least 100 protesters died as the new strongman used armor and fighter planes to crush a general strike called by the million-member Bolivian Central Labor Federation (COB). The death toll might have been higher had Natusch not stationed troops at the mines outside the capital to prevent militant workers from following their usual practice of heading for La Paz with satchels of dynamite whenever a coup takes place...