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Black Power leader Kwame Ture, formerly Stokely Carmichael, called upon Blacks to acquire political consciousness to organize the overthrow of capitalism--what he called "a backwards, stupid, vicious system doomed to fall...
...charges against all ten defendants are serious. Lin Biao's allies will be charged with sedition and plotting to kill Mao. The Gang of Four will be on the block for "conspiracy to overthrow the proletarian dictatorship, persecution of cadres and the practice of a fascist dictatorship," and for trying to "engineer a counterrevolutionary armed rebellion...
...dislike for the Iraqi reqime. Now, stressing old cultural and religious divisions, Tehran accused the Iraqis of fomenting unrest among the predominantly Arab population of Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province, and called on Iraq's Shi'ite Muslims, the majority in the country, to overthrow the Saddam government, which is dominated by Sunnis. Iraq in turn demanded amendment of the Algiers agreement. It also insisted on the return to "Arab" sovereignty of three small strategic islands-Abu Musa, Greater and Lesser Tunb-at the Strait of Hormuz that had been occupied by the Shah...
Saddam tolerates no opposition. Iraqi jails are said to be filled with political prisoners. No sooner had Saddam assumed the presidency from ailing Ahmed Hassan al Bakr last year than he ordered scores of top government officials arrested on charges of plotting to overthrow his regime. He presided over the execution of 21 officials, including a popular Deputy Premier who had been a close friend. Two battered typewriters on which he and his revolutionary comrades once composed antigovernment propaganda are now on display in a Baghdad museum. At the same time, however, Iraqi citizens must have a license...
...after calling for an end to Communist rule in a West German TV interview. Jacek Kuron, head of the far more influential KOR dissident group, was also denounced in a government news program that broadcast edited excerpts of a Swedish interview in which he appeared to favor the violent overthrow of the Communist regime. In Kuron's defense, Walesa warned that slandering KOR members could be a violation of the Gdansk agreement. It was a veiled but unmistakable threat of new strikes if Warsaw should persist in its crackdown on dissidents...