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Most Western observers now believe that the man in control is Premier Chou Enlai, even though some of the rhetoric seems to be directed at him. Last week the theoretical journal Red Flag endorsed what is believed to be Chou's wish to keep the movement from spilling over into such areas of basic policy as foreign affairs and international trade. In an editorial entitled "Study Conscientiously and Deepen Criticism," Red Flag stressed the need for orderly study that avoided "getting bogged down in certain problems...
...that, foreigners traveling in China have been assured that nobody in the present hierarchy is a target of the current movement. And several governments have received assurances that China's diplomacy will not be affected by the new cultural revolution. Determined to keep the campaign within narrow bounds, Chou has issued warnings, echoed by provincial radio broadcasts, against getting sidetracked into such peripheral matters as "settling old scores" and "dividing into this and that faction...
Nonetheless, it is clear that some powerful figures within the Chinese leadership are violating Chou's dicta. To some experts, the attack on Peach Mountain contains oblique, invidious references to Chou. They point out that the opera was sponsored by the Cultural Group of the State Council headed by the Premier. Yet even if Chou is not the "someone" who carefully concocted this "foul, poisonous weed"-as People's Daily nicely put it-the appearance of the denunciation at a time when he is trying to tone down the new movement suggests that some rather complex political maneuvers...
...July 1971 Radford managed to get hold of Kissinger's notes of his secret conversation with Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. (Kissinger testified that he believed Radford had actually rifled his burn bag.) According to Radford, Admiral Welander accepted the notes and warned that "I should never tell anybody that I had done...
...resident newsmen, jealous that they rarely have access to either Inner Mongolia or Premier Chou, have far more to complain about. Their living conditions may be excellent; a modern, eight-room apartment rents for $180 a month, and the wages for a domestic staff of four-interpreter, driver, cook and maid-are only $290 a month. But the Western reporters must labor under conditions alien to their professional standards. The Chinese make serious political analysis and hard-news reporting almost impossible...