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...deplorable." Taiwan's Ambassador to the U.S. blasted Nixon's move. Outwardly, Chiang Kai-shek kept his dignified cool by spending some time at the Evergreen Hotel on Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan, his favorite summer resort. But both Chiang and his son and heir, Chiang Ching-kuo, 61, who is stubborn and tough like his father, had no illusions about the erosion of the position on which they have built their lives. As Taipei's Ambassador to the U.N. complained candidly: "The U.S. has pulled the rug out from under our feet...
...largest outfit is the tactical airlift wing at Ching Chuan Kang, made up of about 4,500 men and four airlift squadrons with a total authorized capacity of 64 Hercules C-130 aircraft, used to transport troops, medical evacuees and heavy equipment. There are also about 1,300 men headquartered at Shu Lin Kou Air Station and a detachment of two F-4 Phantoms at Tainan. Nuclear weapons locations are, of course, among the most highly classified secrets, but it is almost certain that there are none on Taiwan...
...power and rejuvenate the Chinese Revolution was still going full bore. Back then, the five-member Standing Committee of the Politburo was dominated by the stars of Mao's cherished ideological left. Easily the most visible figure on the political scene was Mao's wife Chiang Ching, the onetime movie actress who became the shrillest voice of the Cultural Revolution. Another luminary was Chen Pota, whose considerable skill as Mao's longtime ghostwriter earned him the No. 4 spot in the party hierarchy by 1967, when the Red Guard rampages reached their peak. ∙ Four years...
...political turn-around was for malized on the national level in the spring of 1969 at the Ninth Party Congress. Almost half of the Central Committee seats and more than half of the Politburo seats were taken by army men. Mao's wife Chiang Ching and her radical leftist allies were heavily out numbered. Subsequently, at least three of the more radical Politburo members were also shunted aside. In the provinces, where the party is still being rebuilt, army men joined forces with old party cadres to squeeze out the young radicals. The result: 15 of 19 first secretaries...
...imprints itself on me: this sheet belongs to this rod; it attracts that tank end. It's very much a gamble." (His interest in chance as a provoker of form has existed for years. Back in 1955, he used dice and readings from a Chinese oracular book, the / Ching, to determine the color for paintings...