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...guerrilla leader Mao Tse-tung. Mao's live-in arrangement with her-which apparently ended a few years before his death in 1976 -was tolerated by his comrades on the condition that he keep his new commonlaw wife away from politics. But when Mao launched China on the chaotic Cultural Revolution in the mid-'60s, Jiang Qing rose to become the shrill tyrant of the movement. "Sex," she once confided to American Sinologist Roxane Witke, "is engaging in the first rounds. What sustains interest in the long run is power...
Since most terrorists have tended to be in their teens or early 20s, the generals directed much of their first efforts to bringing the chaotic schools under control. General Haydar Saltik, secretary of the ruling National Security Council, as the junta calls itself, sent a stern message to all students calling for military-like discipline on the campuses. Teachers were warned to keep their instruction free of political ideology or face dismissal. In Kütahya, a province west of the capital of Ankara, the military commander ordered all youths to get haircuts and shaves. On the whole, most Turks...
...almost a double for the middle-aged Howard R. Hughes Jr., the eccentric billionaire who died on April 5, 1976, aboard a jet that was flying him from Acapulco to his native Houston. Lummis, Hughes' first cousin, is now standing in as head of most Hughes enterprises, a chaotic financial empire once estimated to be worth $2.3 billion. Lummis last week took another major step toward straightening out the family business when he sold Hughes Airwest, the West Coast carrier, to Republic Airlines for $38.5 million...
Unfortunately, Poland's economic problems seem to be well beyond the power of workers or government to repair in the near future. They are the result of 33 years of Communist bungling and a decade of misfortune and miscalculation by Gierek's government. He had inherited a chaotic agricultural system and an inefficient industrial base that produced chronic shortages of foodstuffs and consumer goods. His solution was a rapid modernization of industry that was intended to produce hard-currency-earning exports and enable the government to import more food and goods from the West...
...down on my songs at the moment," Davies grouses. "I don't like them at all." Kinks concerts are perfectly in tune with this restless, never satisfied spirit. The Kinks are notorious for playing footsie with disaster, often featuring various combinations of festering fraternal rivalries and chaotic musicianship. Kinks fans love it all. "It is something in the band they can all relate to," Davies says proudly. "Flaws...