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...force have also dropped out of sight -and did not even reappear last week to greet their visiting Pakistani counterparts, an occasion when protocol absolutely demanded the presence of Peking's military chiefs. Still, the only certain judgment was that, whatever the nature of the struggle, Premier Chou En-lai was not likely to come up a loser. The abundance of Chou protégés on the delegation due in Manhattan this week seems proof that the agile Chou has not lost his footing...
...China's ambassador to Canada, a post that he will resign when he takes up his duties in New York. In all, five of Peking's delegates have held posts outside China (in Moscow, London, Cairo, New Delhi and Ghana). Some are veterans of the swings that Chou frequently made through the Third World. The only woman delegate, Wang Hai-yung, 34, has never been outside the Middle Kingdom. But then, Miss Wang has special qualifications: she speaks English, she has been deputy chief of the Foreign Ministry's protocol department and she is reputed...
Even though they have never lived in the U.S., the top men in the delegation are familiar with Americans. Chiao was a capable young aide of Chou En-lai's in the 1940s when Chou was dealing with such Yankee generals as "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell and George C. Marshall. Later, Chiao and his wife, who had been Chou's pretty press spokesman during World War II, were a popular couple in Hong Kong, where they represented Peking's news agency. At the 1961 Geneva Conference on Laos, where he was Chou's chief counselor, Chiao proudly...
Foreign diplomats reported yesterday that Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Premier Chou En-lai have successfully crushed a plot to oust them from power in China led by Defense Minister Lin Piao...
Vogel said that there was an inner power struggle in China and that "in the showdown Chou En-lai came out clearly ahead...