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Chairman Hua Goufeng had been anointed by Mao shortly before his death as one who might bridge both sides, but within a year after Mao's death, the Party hierarchy emerged victorious Deng Xiaoping, former Secretary General and now newly anointed as Vice Premier, led the return of the Party. With the legacy of poverty and ineffective educational and economic leadership, it is unlikely, despite new pragmatic rhetoric and uneven progress toward openness, that China will join the ranks of the advanced industrial powers before the 21st century...
None of these trends could match in power and drama, or in menacing implications for the future, the eruption in Iran. A year ago, in its cover story on 1978's Man of the Year, Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, TIME noted that "the Shah of Iran's 37-year reign was shaken by week upon week of riots." Shortly thereafter, the Shah fell in one of the greatest political upheavals of the post-World War II era, one that raised troubling questions about the ability of the U.S. to guide or even understand the seething passions of the Third...
...attack at the Olympic Village in Munich in 1972. Twenty-five died when terrorists opened fire in the Tel Aviv airport the same year. The Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy turned life for European executives into a routine of paranoid precautions. Former Premier Aldo Moro was kidnaped and executed. With grotesque ingenuity, Italian terrorists practiced "kneecapping"-blowing holes in their victims' knees. Hijackers in the '70s forced every major airport in the world to search passengers and X-ray luggage...
...whole scene is slightly crazy," said Leslie Waddington, a leading London dealer who attended the sales-and observed that few of the offerings were of premier quality. "It's public insanity...
...topple the country's military junta. Now the marchers, 15,000 strong from all political factions, swept through the streets of Athens with a more peaceful aim: to protest a grapeshot series of educational reforms known as Law 815. Trying to play it safe, the conservative government of Premier Constantine Caramanlis had closed the country's seven universities (total enrollment: 100,000). But as it turned out, the students intensified their challenge by staging a takeover of the campuses for six days of marathon sit-ins. "Hands off the student union!" they chanted...