Word: landed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least as difficult as making a revolution. Thus, when thousands of Chinese mass this week in the capital's great Tienanmen Square to hail the 20th anniversary of Communist rule, their celebrations will be tempered by the awareness of problems that are as immense as the vast land and as numerous as its people. This was to have been a "year of triumph" for Mao and China-with a victorious end to his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and a restoration of law and order throughout a badly fragmented nation. But the balance sheet is dismal...
...transportation network, equalize food distribution, establish a tax system and bring the people rudimentary health care. For the first time in anyone's memory, an efficient, honest administration was in charge-though it could also be ruthless and even inhuman in its desire to impose unity on the land. By 1952, Mao had used persuasion and purge to consolidate his power, and China was ready to transform its economy...
...Meir's visit came as Washington sought solutions to the violence in the Middle East. In exchange for aid, the U.S. may ask Israel, among other things, to return some of the land captured in the 1967 war as part of a negotiated peace. Nixon also wants an end to the shootouts along the Suez. The Administration believes that Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser is the only visible Arab leader strong enough to negotiate peace. Any major attacks on his country could scuttle hope of negotiations...
...Perunismo," as the phenomenon has come to be known, is evidently ex portable. The soldiers who seized power in neighboring Bolivia last week quickly promised land reform, recognition of "socialist countries" and a left-wing policy. Said General Alfredo Ovando Candia, 51, the junta strongman and new President: "It is our wish to establish a sort of confederation with the Peruvian military regime...
...present they land to them...