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...Burma, his first trip abroad since he emerged as Peking's No. 3 man last July. Phan Hien, Viet Nam's Deputy Foreign Minister and chief diplomatic troubleshooter, was in Peking on a delicate mission. Teng Ying-ch'ao, 75, the revered widow of Premier Chou Enlai, departed on a good-will visit to Cambodia, and returned to Peking unexpectedly in time to greet Barre...
...Peking's peacemaking efforts have fallen flat. Chou's widow, a Long March veteran and party heroine, was chosen to lead a high-level Chinese delegation to Cambodia because of her pervasive prestige. Her mission was to persuade Premier Pol Pot to negotiate a settlement with Hanoi, but she failed. Though received with due pomp in Phnom-Penh, she was soon whisked out to view the 12th century ruins at Angkor Wat and otherwise kept occupied. After four days she reportedly cut short her visit and went home. Though her hosts may not have been paying much attention...
...galley, gathering Prime Ministers around him as he worried about Viet Nam, presiding above the clouds from his automatic chair that went up and down at the touch of a button. There may never be another presidential moment like the Monday night in Peking when Richard Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai toasted each other in the Great Hall and the People's Liberation Army Band No. 1 played Turkey in the Straw and Home on the Range. Jerry Ford added his chapter in Vladivostok, spending the night with Leonid Brezhnev to conclude details of a nuclear-arms-limitation...
...1930s when, as a country-boy corporal in the Communist forces fighting the Nationalist regime, he became Mao's personal bodyguard. He quickly rose to command Mao's entire security force; in a legendary 1947 operation, he managed to save Mao, Chiang Ch'ing and Chou En-lai from capture by Nationalist troops in their cave headquarters in Yenan...
...force in the family. She designed its coat of arms, which features a duck-billed platypus-"an egg-laying mammal that suckles its young," explains Punch-and the motto NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE. Not for her, anyway. She traveled to China several years ago with a granddaughter and playfully invited Chou En-lai to write for the Times; he declined. The matriarch rarely interferes in Arthur's affairs. "Sons either have an Oedipus complex about their mothers or hate the ole gal for giving them too much chicken soup," says she. "But then I believe in telling my children what...