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...only must he assure a skeptical Europe that he is firmly committed to NATO, but he must also work to strengthen the alliance against the continuing and ominous buildup of Soviet bloc forces. Far more important, he has to face a Western Europe racked by economic problems and political unrest, with the left rising fast...
...China than most analysts have suspected. One broadcast from Shansi declared that followers of the Gang of Four broke into a meeting of the provincial Communist Party secretariat last summer and kidnaped top local leaders. Another broadcast reported that the gang "was the main root causing the protracted unrest in Hupei and Wuhan." Earlier this year the gang is said to have dispatched agitators to the industrial center of Wuhan in Hupei province for the purpose of forming a Chiang Ch'ing power clique. According to one broadcast, the conspirators spoke to each other only in Spanish in order...
...unclear whether most of the unrest is being caused by last-ditch supporters of the discredited radicals or by squabbling factions trying to settle old scores with political enemies. Whatever the reason, stringent measures are being taken to suppress troublemakers, who have been denounced as "criminal gangs." Earlier Hua was forced to send 12,000 troops into Fukien province to deal with "sabotage." From Yunnan last week came stern warnings that "we must resolutely suppress the counterrevolutionaries who beat, wreck and loot...
Changing Presidents always creates unrest in Mexico. But the turmoil facing José López Portillo when he dons the tricolored sash this Wednesday as Mexico's 60th President poses one of the country's gravest trials of confidence in decades. The able Finance Minister of the present government and a longtime friend of outgoing President Luis Echeverria Alvarez', López Portillo inherits three major and all-but-insoluble problems...
CONCORD CAMPUS, HARVARD'S--People may think that Harvard College has always been in Cambridge, but for a single year in the period of colonial unrest and revolt the college moved beyond the city's borders. During the siege of Boston in 1775, more than 1500 revolutionary soldiers were quartered in College buildings, and for the 1775-76 academic year, the College was situated in Concord...