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...members of this embattled cast of characters have appeared on our covers before (this is our 15th on China since the Communists seized power in 1949). Some were shown collectively three years ago, riding a Chinese dragon boat. Individually, it is the fourth time for Mao, followed by Premier Chou En-lai (three times), President Liu Shao-chi and Foreign Minister Chen Yi, all three of whom are now under attack. Our last China cover reported the rise of Defense Minister Lin Piao, who so far seems untouched in the power struggle. The story analyzed the phenomenon...
...Chiang Ching uncorked a fresh villain, and one of the least likely: Mao's propaganda chief Tao Chu, who only five months ago was bumped up by Mao to No. 4 rank in the ruling hierarchy-trailing only Mao himself, Lin Piao and the durable Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. Until last week Ta' Chu had been one of the few certified Mao heroes of the revolution, providing much of the verbal firepower for the purge. But Chiang Ching denounced Tao Chu last week as a "bourgeois reactionary," one of the dirtiest epithets in the Maoist lexicon...
...personal power in Peking was becoming so vicious that no one was any longer immune from at least passing poster defamation-partly because Liu and his supporters seemed to be putting up a few posters of their own, thereby confusing everyone. Thus last week posters popped up demanding: "Burn Chou En-lai to death!" As fast as they went up, they were torn down and replaced with signs proclaiming that anyone against Chou ought to have "his head bashed in." Foreign Minister Chen Yi, considered a Mao man, was also attacked. When Reuters attempted to file a report...
...surprisingly, when the first bands of Red Guards approached the assembly lines last fall, with their little, red pocket versions of Mao's works, some ugly clashes took place. Chou Enlai, always the mediator, stepped in and decreed that Red Guards were henceforth to refrain from interfering in industrial production or farming methods. But at the same time, Lin made plain to the Red Guards that the retreat was only temporary so far as Mao's grand scheme was concerned...
...government ministries are Chou's responsibility; the ministries would probably prefer to concentrate on the country's rice and steel quotas. But Mao and Lin's watchers, following events like soap opera devotees, wonder if Chou will be able to prevail up on Mao and Lin to soften the impact of the Cultural Revolution on the provincial chiefs and his own bureaucrats...