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...Congress in 1975. It was the Premier's last publicized appearance outside a hospital (he died of cancer a year later). Chou sketched plans to improve China's agriculture by 1980 as part of "the Four Modernizations" that would "turn a poverty-stricken and backward country into a socialist one with the beginnings of prosperity in only 20 years or more." That report (and the Four Modernizations slogan) is widely believed to have been the work of Teng Hsiao-p'ing, the little bureaucratic survivor, tough as a walnut, who was Chou's protege...
...most significant stop on McGovern's safari probably was Angola. That troubled, former Portuguese province has until recently strongly opposed U.S. African policy. In turn, Washington has long objected to the large force of Cuban soldiers and civilian workers (about 20,000) in President Agostinho Neto's socialist republic. Neto, reports TIME Correspondent David Wood, who accompanied McGovern to Luanda, hinted to McGovern that the Cubans will leave Angola eventually -but only when South Africa stops raiding the country's bases along the Namibian border...
...investment. The few Western companies operating in Angola, Neto said, "are doing their work well, have good relations with us, and pay their taxes promptly. We have no reason to complain." Conspicuous by its absence was any reference to capitalist exploitation, neocolonialism and bourgeois imperialism, common catchwords in the socialist Third World?and until recently in Agostinho Neto's troubled capital...
...also has an interest in seeing that the islands, which in 1976 became an independent nation in the British Commonwealth, do not serve as a base for Soviet nuclear submarines. The islands are so quiet that even the seizure of power in a relatively nonviolent coup by the socialist Seychelles People's United Party last year did not overly worry Washington. Last week, however, Western intelligence agencies were fretting over the meaning of some 45,000 Ibs. of Soviet small arms, including grenades and hundreds of Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles, that have been shipped to the Seychelles...
...vote ended months of uncertainty over who would hold power in Lisbon. The Socialists, who are the largest party in the fractious Assembly, rejected the previous government, which was formed last summer by Alfredo Nobre da Costa, an apolitical technocrat, at the behest of President Antonio Ramalho Eanes. Eanes had just dropped Socialist Party Chief Mario Scares from the premiership after his governing coalition with the conservative Center Democrats fell apart. Scares was incensed by his ouster and was particularly upset because Eanes had not consulted the political parties before choosing Nobre da Costa. The former Premier insisted Eanes' action...