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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their intelligence during Québec's terrorist crisis of 1970. Then two cells of the Front de Libération du Québec kidnaped British Trade Commissioner James Cross and murdered Québec's Labor Minister Pierre Laporte. According to evidence now be ing heard by a Québec government inquiry, the Mounties were determined not to be caught short again. Among other things, an elite Mountie dirty tricks squad staged a break-in at a leftist Montreal news agency, and stole dynamite from a construction firm, apparently to convey the impression that terrorists...
...stamp parliament. The agenda will be pure formality: primarily, approving Cabinet appointments already made by party leaders. More time was needed to elect delegates to the congress, said Hua, because of relentless "interference and sabotage" by followers of the Gang of Four, headed by Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing and the Antiparty Clique of the late Defense Minister Lin Piao...
...elimination, China watchers have succeeded in positioning some of the unrepentant revolutionary committee members who were denounced by Hua. They are right in Peking. The capital's committee, for example, is led by Mayor Wu Teh, who was appointed the city's acting mayor in 1966 when Chiang Ch'ing was busily promoting her supporters. Last year Wu Teh (who was confirmed in his post six years later) inveighed against Teng Hsiao-p'ing as an "unrepentant capitalist reader." Since then Teng has made a spectacular comeback, gaining the powerful post of Vice Premier. Wu is now in trouble...
These maneuvers were also calculated to erode the authority of Peking Regional Commander Ch'en Hsi-lien, who is now ostensibly Fu's superior. Analysts believe that Teng Hsiao-p'ing is gunning for the commander, who is said to have opposed Teng's return to power. If so, there is little doubt of the outcome. In reports of a reception held last week for the 1,000 workers who built Mao Tse-tung's mausoleum, Teng was listed as No. 3 man in the Chinese hierarchy, while Ch'en had slid from fifth to 14th place...
Such a career would have been impossible for a Latin Protestant until recently, given the Roman Catholic church's Latin American territorial imperative. But Palau, 42, began his preach ing travels as the Second Vatican Council was deciding that Protestants were not heretics but just "separated brethren." Now even Latin bishops urge their faithful to attend his rallies...