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...news agency's terse communiques about the unusually brief Congress indicated that Mao, now almost 80, remains the unchallenged leader of the party. His appearance at the Congress, according to the news agency, triggered "prolonged and hearty applause." Premier Chou En-lai continues as second to Mao. At the Congress, Chou presented the all-important political report; he was also elected one of the party's five vice chairmen and, significantly, was listed first. The Congress endorsed Chou's foreign policy, including improved relations with the U.S., but it also warned against the "hegemonism...
...thousands of posts they held in the government, party and military. This nearly paralyzed the bureaucracies, even at the highest levels. Of the 21-man Politburo, only eleven members are known to be active, and its five-man standing committee has only two functioning members, Mao and Premier Chou Enlai. This week's congress must fill those vacant ranks. It is also expected that for the first time Lin will be branded a traitor and right-wing opportunist (the party's worst sin). The congress will then have to adopt a new party constitution, one which no longer...
...masterfully conveys those few instances in the campaign when real drama flared, including the selection and dumping of Thomas Eagleton as McGovern's running mate. But like the election, the book belongs to Richard Nixon. The President strides into China, and in the moment of a handshake with Chou Enlai, "China was erased as the enemy...
...stories about China that circulated in the '60s, especially during the brief ride of the Red Guards, was that Maoism had flung out the past: 3,000 years of willow-pattern tranquillity overthrown, Confucius and Mencius consigned to the paper shredder, and the arts of the ancestral dynasties-Chou and Han, T'ang and Sung, Ming and Chi'ing-abandoned as relics of decadent feudalism, replaced by the cast-concrete colossus of Mao or the agitprop poster of beaming, eupeptic tractor drivers exceeding their norm in Szechwan province...
...Both the House and Senate have passed bills to curb Nixon's power to impound funds appropriated by Congress. Even such a comparatively trivial sign as Kissinger's postponing his trip to Peking, which had been set for early August to discuss a Cambodian settlement with Chou Enlai, aroused speculation. Kissinger is concerned that Watergate has eroded the President's-and his own -ability to conduct foreign policy, and that the longer the crisis goes on, the more damaging and potentially dangerous it is to the nation...