1976

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1975 1976 1977

Events

Alva Myrdal publishes The Game of Disarmament: How the U.S. and Russia Run the Arms Race.
James Scott publishes The Moral Economy of the Peasant.
Church Committee reports.
Miami Cuban wingnuts bomb a Cubana Airlines flight and kill 73 people.
Film The Voyage of the Damned is released.
China's population is 937.17 million.
UNCTAD IV in Nairobi.

Timeline

February 12: Darwin Day
March 1: Pakistani President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto names General Zia ul-Haq, a very pious Muslim, to be Pakistan's new army chief of staff. Not a good choice. Zia overthrows Bhutto in 1977 and executes him in 1979.
June: Syrian Army intervenes in Labanese civil war.
July 4: United States celebrates its bicentennial.
September 9: Mao Zedong dies at the age of 82.
September 21: Chilean dissident exile Dr. Orlando Letelier and his American aide Ronni Karpen Moffitt are assassinated in Washington, DC, with a bomb planted by agents of the DINA, the Chilean secret police.
November 2: In the Presidential election, Democrat Jimmy Carter defeats quasi-incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford

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