Alexander Pantsov, a Russian-born professor of history at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, has worked assiduously to discover more about the diminutive, barrel-chested man. He has spent many ...

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Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping attended an outdoor cocktail party during his visit to Japan on October 24, 1978.

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That effort failed disastrously, resulting in an estimated 30 million deaths due to starvation, the largest single country death toll from famine in modern history between 1960 and 1962.