Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JAN. 14. Kissinger announces Soviet rejection of the trade agreement...
...booked; phalanxes of shiny limousines were observed at Peking's Great Hall of the People. Finally, late last week, the announcement came from China's Hsinhua News Agency that the National People's Congress, theoretically China's top legislative body, had been meeting secretly since Jan. 13. It was the first time that the Congress had been convened in a decade. Long expected and long postponed, it produced results that for the first time since the Cultural Revolution of the '60s officially gave China a top leadership group...
...since January 1973, when the Paris Accords supposedly brought peace, had the fighting in Indochina been so bloody. Following up their capture of Phuoc Long province earlier this month (TIME, Jan. 20), Communist forces last week kept relentless pressure on the Saigon government with small-unit action throughout the country. Saigon claimed that in the nine days following the fall of Phuoc Binh, capital of Phuoc Long, 3,066 Communist soldiers were killed while 484 government troops died and 1,661 were wounded...
...agreement reached at Algarve stipulates that the transitional government-which is scheduled to assume power on Jan. 31-will have a Portuguese High Commissioner and a twelve-member Cabinet, with the three liberation groups and Portugal each allotted three ministers. The chairmanship of a three-member presidential council will rotate among the factions. A Constituent Assembly, which will draft a constitution and choose a President, must be elected within nine months...
...fate of the institute, the Phillips Research Foundation, Lincoln Open University (which suspended operations Jan. 3) and the Lowthers now depends on audits and investigations by the IRS and the Illinois attorney general. For his part, Sam Gould can only say, "The whole thing is embarrassing...