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Until the final communique, his negotiating sessions with Premier Chou En-lai were kept entirely secret so as not to jeopardize the delicate talks, as Nixon later explained to the press. No leaks escaped to upset the routine, no emotions exploded to disturb the surface tranquillity. There was no shoe pounding, no confrontation of raw power, as occurred at the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting in Vienna. There was none of the Big Daddyism that Lyndon Johnson exhibited in 1966 at his Asian summit in the Philippines. Security was not obtrusive; crowds did not have to be controlled because they rarely gathered...
...though in the communiqué China disavowed superpower status. The components of this pentagram are far from equal. How the President's voyage will really affect the relationships within that new field of force-who stands to gain or to lose-is something that neither Nixon, Mao nor Chou can know at this point...
...American standards, the capital airport is almost deserted only half an hour before the President touches down. Where are Chou En-lai and the palace guard? Around, say the Chinese officials, but not in sight. Finally, from behind some buildings come the sound of troops. Rhythmic marching, hard boots, the shout of a command...
Nixon trip this week for LIFE. But he began having backaches last year; what he dismissed as lumbago turned out to be cancer. Chou showed his concern by dispatching two doctors and a nurse from Peking, but they could not help. Last week, with his wife, son and daughter at his bedside, Snow, 66, died in his farmhouse at Eysins, Switzerland -on the Chinese New Year's Day, and just six days before President Nixon's arrival in Peking. Said Mao in a personal message to Snow's widow: ''His memory will live forever...
...finally broke through the Nationalist blockade of the Communists in northern Shensi province in 1936 and spent four months with Mao, Chou and other leaders. The resulting book, Red Star Over China, was a masterpiece of reporting, and it cast Snow from then on as both a biographer and a sometime spokesman for Mao. Author Theodore White, who covered China during World War II. calls Red Star "an example of classic reportage. Ed's discovery and description of Chinese Communism was a staggering achievement, like Columbus discovering America." Said Snow of Mao: "Here is a man in whom...