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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...native province of Hunan, where he spent most of his career as a high regional party official and became an expert in agriculture, which is the backbone of China's economy. Significantly, he went to Peking just after former Defense Minister Lin Piao tried to overthrow Mao in 1971. Mao at that time was presumably trying to bring trusted officials to the capital. In 1973, Hua was named to the 22-member Politburo; early last year he became a Vice Premier and head of China's little-known security apparatus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Surprise Choice To Follow Chou | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

...example, is linked with imperialism. Thus it is hard for us to believe that the interests of such regimes are with the Palestinian revolution. They would like to make us so dependent on them that we could not take independent action. It is not our duty as Palestinians to overthrow those regimes, but we will cooperate with national liberation movements in those countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: We Object to the Israeli State' | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

...peasants who get a few cents a day growing coffee, yet have to buy their wheat from us; we keep governments in power there which force them to plant only coffee, so we can get it cheaply and control the wheat market. I spoke of guerrillas who want to overthrow those governments and our corporate influence, and showed how, if they succeed, the corporations will squeeze workers tighter here at home. "Either they put you in uniform and send you off to prop up dictatorships, or they take it out on your hide back here. Profit's the goal...

Author: By James A. Sleeper, | Title: Above The Battle: The Price We Pay | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

...Expelled from that country after the "Black September" of 1970, the P.L.O. has insisted that ties with Amman can improve only if the fedayeen once again are allowed to use Jordanian territory as bases from which to strike at Israel. Hussein, who vividly remembers that the guerrillas tried to overthrow his regime, has answered with a flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Debate at the U.N.: The P.L.O. Problem | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...supported covert action against Allende; that American corporations poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into opposition to Allende, including support to the truckers' strike which played a key role in toppling the regime; and that the CIA itself distributed over $20 million to prevent Allende's election and to overthrow him once he came to power. Nevertheless, the committee claims that the CIA was not directly involved in the 1973 coup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coverup in The Senate: The CIA in Chile | 12/9/1975 | See Source »

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