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...wife Chiang Ching, who was the ideological power behind the radical Red Guard fanatics during the Cultural Revolution, turned up at Army Day ceremonies as No. 3 in the Politburo, after Mao and Chou. She may be jockeying for that position, however, with Yeh, who led a bloody provincial army suppression of Mme. Mao's Red Guards in 1967 and has developed no affection for radicals since...
Astrology has long been the favorite method for divining the future, but many new occultists these days combine their interest in astrology with other ancient methods of divination. The I Ching, the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, provides one of them?an elaborate and complicated casting of sticks (or in another variation, coins). Their random order of fall directs the inquirer to appropriate passages in the book, which then guide his actions. Tarot cards are another favorite. The standard tarot deck has 78 cards, 56 of the "minor arcana," similar to and forerunners of modern playing cards, and 22 "major...
Chiang Kaishek, Nationalist China's 84-year-old President, seemed aghast when it was first proposed to him that Vice President C.K. Yen, 66, resign his added post of Premier and that the generalissimo name his own son, Chiang Ching-kuo, 62, to fill the vacancy. Would that not, the Gimo demanded, be unseemly? Would it not seem to be the beginning of a dynasty...
Actually, Chiang's demurrers were an expectable bit of Chinese political etiquette. He has, in fact, been carefully grooming his son to take over Taiwan's top job some day. Last week the national assembly routinely confirmed Chiang Ching-kuo as Premier. In that job, nongovernment observers hope, he may have the clout to carry out his promises to 1) attack the bureaucratic inefficiency that has tarnished the island republic's record of progress and prosperity, and 2) bring more native Taiwanese into the government. No one, though, doubts that the generalissimo will still have the final...
...over, the hippie myth carried by the summer travellers "Is continually at odds with the survival requirements of life on the Cambridge Common." This dialectic yields so bizarre a synthesis as James, an ace Volkswagen rip--off artist who decides when to steal cars by throwing the I Ching...