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...warned that South African troops would pursue the saboteurs into Zimbabwe if the attacks continued. The Foreign Ministers of Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe, denied that A.N.C. guerrillas maintained bases in their countries and protested Botha's threat "in the strongest possible terms." NORTHERN IRELAND Anger in Parliament...
There was a feeling of history in the making last week as the British House of Commons voted 473 to 47 in favor of the accord giving the Irish Republic a formal consulting voice in the governing of Northern Ireland. After the tally was announced, the Rev. Ian Paisley, a militant Protestant leader, shouted, "Ulster forever!" The next day, Paisley and fellow Democratic Unionist M.P. Peter Robinson tendered their resignations in the Commons' traditional fashion by applying for nominal Crown jobs, which would bar them from House membership. Their 13 Ulster Unionist colleagues vowed to follow suit...
...accord. The Irish Senate also approved the accord, clearing the way for the first Irish-British meeting, scheduled to take place later this month in Belfast. Security will be the major topic. Last week a soldier in the Ulster Defense Regiment became the 51st victim of terrorism in Northern Ireland this year...
...rural rather than urban insurrection, then a departure from orthodoxy. The leading advocate of that strategy was none other than Mao, who was working in another province at the time and therefore was spared the humiliation Deng suffered Deng was rehabilitated in time to join the Long March to northern Shaanxi province beginning in October 1934, and continued to support Mao's approach, eventually becoming political commissar of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. A U.S. military observer who met Deng during this period, Marine Corps Major Evans Carlson, remembered him as "short, chunky and physically tough, with...
...Deng Pufang, a 22-year-old student at Peking University, was crippled for life when he was denied medical treatment for a broken back, sustained in a fall caused by Red Guard tormentors. His daughter Deng Rong and younger son Deng Zhifang were banished to the countryside in the northern province of Shaanxi...