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...dauphin-and is fighting to cut him back down to size. In such a battle, Liu commands considerable resources. Mao may have been the sun shining on Red Chinese Communism, but in the last two decades it was Liu who got down on the ground and cultivated the party apparatus. All seven governors of the provinces of China are Liu's appointees; and hundreds, if not thousands, of lesser party and government officials owe their jobs to Liu, whatever their lip service...
...confession last October at a party caucus. And for all the Red Guard denunciations before and since, Liu is still President of China. The conclusion of Sinologists: Mao's opposition, including such "revisionists" as Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping, is still too powerfully entrenched in the party apparatus, still has too much of a following in the countryside to be summarily ousted...
...found objects," which he picks up in the antique shops around St. Louis' Gaslight Square. A brace of oxygen tanks perches on the shoulders of the center figure, while a shower nozzle, stainless-steel tubing and a ski cable festoon the fronts of the other two. The apparatus eerily suggests scuba gear, gas masks, or an astronaut's breathing equipment-items necessary, in Trova's view, to habilitate man for "an alien atmosphere...
...barrage of personal slurs by Democrat Jim Johnson, 41, a ranting segregationist who helped make the campaign one of the nation's dirtiest. Rockefeller, who gave Democratic Governor Orval Faubus a scare in the 1964 election, loosened up his campaign style, tightened up his party's fledgling apparatus, and let Jim Johnson undo himself. In the process, the nascent Arkansas G.O.P. elected its first Lieutenant Governor and its first U.S. Congressman in modern times...
...back, not one major bond issue has been deleted from next week's ballot in response to the Administration's efforts. Voters will be asked to approve almost $2 billion in new spending, ranging from $230 million for higher education in California to $25,000 for fire apparatus in Austinberg Township, Ohio...