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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...struggle with the Gang of Four: I let the Gang of Four grab my tail and give me a sound flogging. Perhaps you comrades would say that it was Chairman Mao who relieved me of my former jobs and dismissed me from office. As a matter of fact, it wasn't so. I would rather call it a decree of fate. Chiang Ch'ing used to laugh at me, saying that my head was bullet-shaped and couldn't wear official headgear securely ... As long as class struggle exists, there will be persons like the Gang...
None of the apartments have toilets; instead the residents use a large common facility around the corner from their alley. The apartment dwellings look as though they were constructed decades ago. In fact, they are barely twelve years old, having been built in 1966, just before the beginning of the Cultural Revolution that plunged China into a decade of chaos...
Washington remained optimistic that Peking would not seek to capture Taiwan by force, although it had nothing but vague hints from the Communists to that effect. In fact, Taiwan's well-trained military, 474,000 strong and equipped with 316 combat aircraft, including F-5A/E interceptors, air-to-air and ground-to-ground missiles, is an effective deterrent for the present. Meanwhile, State Department experts were debating some of the options that Taiwan might now take. At an emergency meeting of the Nationalists' Central Committee last week one member even raised the prospect of playing a "Russia...
...also considering asking big businessmen and big farmers for endorsements. Said a White House aide: "It is going to be hard for Senators to raise hell if the power structures in their home states say that China is a good deal." The opposition is hurt further by the fact that Carter is backed on China by some prominent Republicans, including ex-Presidents Ford and Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
...uncertain whether the remaining differences would delay the first summit between Jimmy Carter and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. It was tentatively being planned for Washington in mid-January, just a fortnight before the visit of China's Teng Hsiao-p'ing. The President, in fact, has wanted to see Brezhnev for a year, but the Russians have refused to come until SALT II was ready for signing...