Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of his old enemies. Wu Teh, the mayor of Peking at the time of the riots and one of Teng's principal adversaries, has already been sacked and replaced by Lin Hu-chia, a Teng ally. Ch'en Hsi-lien, commander of the Peking military region, and Wang Tung-hsing, head of the secret police, have also come under attack...
...Gaza "Strip" was created by the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It was the only bit of Palestine that the Egyptian army could salvage after fighting ineffectively against the creation of the state of Israel. The Egyptians subsequently used the region as a base for raids into Israel. Those raids ceased after the 1956 war between Egypt and Israel, when Gamal Abdel Nasser agreed to the placement...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana--More than 400 members of an American religious cult were still missing in Guyana, South America, despite a search through dense jungle yesterday as Guyanese officials tried to restore order to a region that was the site of five murders and 400 deaths in a mass suicide last weekend...
...from one column to another. Although they generally ignored party labels, they followed a consistent theme: they rewarded candidates who favored conservative issues such as limits on government spending, tax cuts and tougher law enforcement. It was the G.O.P. that profited most from this trend. Altogether, Republicans in the region netted one additional seat in the U.S. Senate, three in the House of Representatives and two governorships...
...control over the Persian Gulf, the funnel for much of the oil destined for Japan, Europe, Israel and the U.S. Iraq, which got the Shah to stop Iranian support for a rebellion of its Kurdish separatists in 1975, feared the revival of ethnic and tribal tensions in the region. Fearful that a successful move to topple the Shah would unsettle other monarchies in the area, Saudi Arabia's King Khalid called on Arab nations to give the Shah all possible support...