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48 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits Contents includes: Global events: Three hijacked airliners are blown up -- Bangladesh is born -- President Nixon visits China -- Murder at the Munich Olympics -- Chile's government is overthrown -- Egypt and Syria attack Israel -- The price of oil soars -- Sydney Opera House opens -- Nixon announces his resignation -- Ethiopia's emperor is deposed -- Saigon falls to the North Vietnamese -- General Franco dies -- Concorde goes into service -- Viking 1 lands on Mars -- The Sex Pistols on Top of the pops -- Karol Wojtyla is elected pope -- Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran -- Soviet forces enter Afghanistan -- British events: Britain joins the common market -- 'Bloody Sunday' -- Britain's first woman Prime Minister Summary: The 1970's was a time of detente, an easing of Cold War tensions and an historic visit by President Nixon to China. The conflict in the Middle East led to international terrorist incidents and a major oil crisis. Iran erupted in revolution, space probes landed on Mars, and the Sex Pistols shocked the establishment. This book describes these and many other world changing events of the decade Dates of a decade