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...vote for him. Once a dirty word among Jews, Nixon has decidedly spruced up. If Jews have become less liberal, the President has become more so. Somewhere along the way, they may have met. "Did you ever think you'd live to see Richard Nixon having dinner with Chou En-lai?" asks Lawrence Goldberg, director of the Jewish division of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. "This isn't the Nixon of the '50s. Jews have heard Hubert Humphrey talking about arms reductions for 20 years. But who gets the SALT talks going? Richard...
...analysts see signs that Mao and Premier Chou En-lai are trying to put China's fractured leadership back together. Late last month, in an effort to convince the outside world that harmony had returned to Peking, Chinese officials began speaking openly for the first time of the events of last fall, confirming many details-Lin's attempts on Mao's life, his death in an air crash in Mongolia while trying to flee-that had filtered out of China long ago (TIME...
...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...
...full membership can Mao deal with Peking's fundamental problem: the succession. Much to the wonder of China watchers-and the worry of Western governments that are anxious to expand their contacts with Peking-there are no indications of who might succeed Mao, who is 78, and Chou, whom visitors have recently found looking every bit of his 74 years. Though Mao will not necessarily want to name an heir again-Lin was the third person whom the Chairman had groomed for the succession, only to have to purge him later on*-the fact is that no likely candidates...
Mission of Persuasion. Nonetheless, Chou recently declared that China must not repeat the "mistakes" of the 1954 Geneva Conference, which partitioned Viet Nam-meaning that Peking will not directly pressure Hanoi into an agreement. Presumably out of respect for North Vietnamese feelings, the People's Daily published an anti-U.S. editorial on the eve of Kissinger's visit...