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...crow) flies, our correspondents in the crown colony must piece together news from travelers, diplomats, refugees, provincial Chinese newspapers and radio broadcasts. Their task is made easier because all three have had first-hand experience on the mainland. Bureau Chief Roy Rowan, who chatted with Chou En-lai in Peking in 1973, began on-the-scene reporting of the Chinese civil war for LIFE in 1947. Rowan covered the conflict from the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek's armies in Manchuria to the fall of Canton in 1949. Correspondent Bing W. Wong grew up on a small island...
...hospital sanctuary, and then for short, if theatrical, appearances at state banquets. Analysts in the West wondered if the combination of political and physical illness might not spell the end of a long and illustrious career. Yet for all the apparent setbacks, China's urbane, unbreakable Premier Chou En-lai last week was savoring what was indisputably one of the greatest triumphs of his life...
...with so much of Chou's career, the circumstances surrounding his latest feat were extraordinary. Chou stage-managed his victory not from his usual office in Chungnanhai, Peking's government quarter, but from his hospital suite. Suddenly and unexpectedly, he emerged from seclusion to preside over the first meeting in ten years of the National People's Congress, China's highest parliamentary body. Held two weeks ago in absolute secrecy at Peking's Great Hall of the People, the congress ratified a series of decisions that had been made in equal secrecy at a plenary...
...Guard. It is not simply that Chou at age 76 was reconfirmed as Premier, a post he has held since the People's Republic was founded on Oct. 1, 1949. What is more notable is that barring an abrupt and unforeseen reversal, Chou has set China on a pronounced turn toward moderation and stability. It is a turn away from experimentalism and toward normalcy; away from the radicals of the Cultural Revolution, which raged from 1966 until 1969, and toward the old guard, whose members had been rudely and often violently ousted from power during that period...
...monumental political movement in history. It was they who nurtured Chinese society from a devastated, war-weary, disunited shambles into a major-and soon a mighty-world power that is already both a member of the nuclear club and an exporter of oil. And it was they who, as Chou recently put it, "have succeeded in ensuring the people their basic needs in food and clothing"-an achievement that none of the world's other massive, overpopulated agricultural nations can quite match...