1976: Asia

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The deaths of China's two most important leaders, Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai, made 1976 a year of dramatic change in Asia's most populous and powerful nation. It was a year of strained relations between the Communist and non-Communist governments of Southeast Asia, and in Thailand internal... ...