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Huang was one of the original 400 revolutionaries who survived Mao's abortive 1927 "Autumn Harvest Uprising" and fled with him into the Ching-kang mountains to form the nucleus of the Red Army in China. During years of Japanese invasion and civil war. Huang often served under Lin. As commander of the Canton military region in the turbulent summer of 1967. Huang was one of the first army men to speak out against the excesses of the Cultural Revolution. He openly supported the conservatives, declaring that "from now on, we must have a clear-cut attitude. We cannot...
...There is a fourteen-year-old boy who has been tripping all night, and he has the I Ching clutched in his hands. And there's another boy not much older, an acid dealer, who is tripping and trying to hide his dope before it gets too light. And a little girl named Roberta with a crumpled velvet dress and great big eyes. And a guy named Rufus who has left his wife and child in Maine and wants to go to New Mexico to look for Don Juan, who was the peyote man in a look. Rufus wants...
...common knowledge that alcohol, in moderation, has therapeutic effects-as a releaser of emotional tensions, for instance, and as a mild sedative. Drink also serves society through the simple but significant camaraderie of the cup. In a recent experiment, Dr. Ching-piao Chien, a senior psychiatrist at Boston State Hospital, tested this function of alcohol on geriatric patients. Chien staged his study in the hospital sunroom, which had been converted for the experiment into a pub. His subjects were 40 male inmates (average age 73) suffering from depression or mental deterioration stemming from senility...
...apparently relieved the leadership of some of its internal preoccupations and given it enough confidence to look outward and score some successes. The untiring Premier seems to be winning the still unresolved struggle between conservatives who favor political consolidation and radicals who, like Mao's wife Chiang Ching, think even more veteran officials should be purged to admit younger activists to power...
Seemingly unshaken, Chiang Ching-kuo continued with his scheduled appearances, although nervous security forces were strengthened to protect him. There was little doubt that the assassination attempt was a serious one and that only Ziede's quick action had saved Chiang from serious injury or death. The incident clearly indicated that the ever-present resentment of Mainlander rule is increasing in Taiwan. One of the fears of many anti-Chiang Taiwanese, however farfetched it may seem now, is that they might some day be delivered to Communist China in a deal made by Chiang Ching-kuo. They refuse...