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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foreign diplomats reported yesterday that Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Premier Chou En-lai have successfully crushed a plot to oust them from power in China led by Defense Minister Lin Piao...
Recently he re-established diplomatic bonds with Peking and extended an invitation to Premier Chou En-lai to visit Belgrade. Then he turned around and played host to Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, with whom he joined in a declaration of friendship and cooperation. Now, closing the triangle, Tito is moving to enhance Yugoslav-American relations, which have been better than ever since President Nixon's 1970 state visit to Belgrade...
...change is economic. South Africa is rapidly industrializing, with more skilled jobs opening up than there are white workers to fill them, and is thus ever more dependent upon skilled black labor. If the laws reserving skilled work to whites were really enforced, or if blacks were transported en masse to the Bantustans, production lines would be crippled and trains would halt...
...direct comparisons between then and now are inescapable. The Palmer raids, in which thousands of aliens were rounded up in major American cities and deported en masse to Europe, have been compared to the McCarthy purges of the 1950's or the mass, indiscriminate arrests during the Washington Mayday demonstrations in 1971. Many would contend that the system of justice that convicted Sacco and Vanzetti lives on in the trials of the Rosenbergs, the Chicago Eight and Angela Davis...
Easy Up, Hard Down. The temptation to link Nixon's Peking trip to the possibility of a negotiated settlement in Viet Nam is being deliberately discouraged by Washington officials. It would be naive, they say, to expect Chinese Premier Chou En-lai to exert pressure on Hanoi to make concessions to the U.S. By merely agreeing to sit down with Nixon while the U.S. is involved in battle with Communist forces, Chou is straining China's relations with North Viet Nam. Any pressure from Peking might cause Hanoi to turn to Moscow for more help in its long...