Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holiday, both seasonal and pagan, May Day goes back thousands of years. Some remnants of this ancient past still survive: on May Day, French gentlemen give their ladies bouquets of lilies of the valley. In Greece, doors and balconies are decked with floral wreaths. In Czechoslovakia, traditional vows of love are exchanged...
...reading "Abolish Sweden." In divided Berlin, fog and rain kept most Berliners at home watching competing parades on TV. There were four in all, divided between West and East Berlin. In its typical out-of-step-with-the-times fashion, East Berlin held an old-fashioned military march-past. In Hamburg, Foreign Minister Willy Brandt was heckled by students and greeted with "Sieg Heil!" salutes...
When some move up, others must move down. Three of Chou's closest associates were dropped, among them Foreign Minister Chen Yi. All three had come under heavy Red Guard fire over the past three years, and analysts believe that Mao, despite Chou's attempts to protect them, decided that they were dispensable. In general, the Politburo now seems divided into three main groups: the Mao-Lin section (twelve members), which retains control; the People's Liberation Army segment (six members), which mistrusts Lin because he espoused the extremism and instability of the Cultural Revolution...
...legislative veto has not been invoked directly: Okinawan lawmakers simply do not introduce bills that they feel may be killed. But several officials have been removed in the past, and when Naha in 1956 elected a Communist mayor, the then-High Commissioner forced him out of office...
...Victor Paz Estenssoro in 1964 (Barrientos won an election in 1966), was in Washington on a visit. The U.S. Air Force immediately offered him a C140 jet to fly home quickly. While Siles and Ovando and other dignitaries escorted Barrientos' body to La Paz Cathedral, Bolivians mourning the past also began to worry about the future...