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dominion within the British Commonwealth. In 1974, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif., by the Symbionese Liberation Army. In 1995, a standoff between the United States and China escalated into a trade war, with each country ordering stiff tariffs against the other. |
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