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...Your informative and penetrating cover story on the chaos inside Red China [Jan. 13] reveals one clear fact: Red China is a dragon in trouble, if not a dragon in sleep. Communist rule, after 17 years of "leap forward" and "construction," has never been stable. Even the Great Wall could not prevent the outside world from knowing that the developing power struggle might mean the end of the regime...
...around the clock. Their raw materials are propaganda sheets and travelers' recollections, railroad timetables, the fragmentary increments of satellite-borne cameras. Their subject is infinitely elusive, yet hardly esoteric. It is Red China. Thanks to its China watchers, and the relatively new art of stethoscoping the Red Dragon, the U.S. has a clear lead over other nations in piercing the hermetic barriers that seal the Chi nese mainland from the outside world...
...grey, bone-chilling rain that gusted over Taiwan last week was the pervasive mood of concern about the furious happenings only 100 miles across the strait. In downtown Taipei, Chinese huddled in raincoats and overcoats discussing the latest news out of Red China. Business men at the smart Golden Dragon restaurant traded reports over lunch. In thousands of homes, mainland exiles tuned in their radios and television sets and pored through newspapers for the latest hints of hope. The Nationalist Chinese on Taiwan are sharing in Red China's convulsions as only those can who have left behind...
...Rome's American Academy, Lavin revealed five new sculptures that he attributed to Bernini: a small boy with dragon, two marble putti in the Barberini chapel in the Church of Sant' Andrea della Valle, plus two portrait busts from Confraternita della Pietá (a 17th century charity hospital demolished in 1937), long forgotten in the cellar of an adjacent church. Each is stamped with the baroque characteristic of the human presence hyperpersonified, with anatomy in strain, gestures exaggerated, details made into drama...
...principal 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...