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...Moscow the crimes of Stalin have been reported and officially confirmed for years. The unrepentant Chinese government is still much more secretive and reluctant to provide ammunition for its critics. But two new books -- The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng by Harrison E. Salisbury (Little, Brown; 544 pages; $24.95) and The Claws of the Dragon: Kang Sheng by John Byron and Robert Pack (Simon & Schuster; 560 pages; $27.50) -- indicate that glasnost is coming, inexorably, to Beijing. They provide the most detailed and personal accounts so far of the chaos, cruelty and corruption that Mao Zedong...
...Harrison Salisbury, the veteran New York Times correspondent and popular historian, comes right out and calls Mao an emperor -- and not the first one to take power through a peasant rebellion. Precisely because Mao was a peasant, he was unprepared to govern China and modernize it. A "pseudo- Marxist" bored by statistics and budgets, Mao was interested mainly in class warfare and "mobilization of the masses," who he was convinced could do anything if properly exhorted...
...over how to cover a story engineered by one, concerning a top-priority subject: presidential politics. When the Star, its cover splashed with scarlet, citron and purple, asserted that Gennifer Flowers enjoyed a 12-year affair with Democratic candidate Bill Clinton -- in an issue that also retailed movie star Harrison Ford's "brush with death" (resulting in four stitches) and a household "ghostbusting" by rocker Joseph McIntyre of New Kids on the Block -- "real" journalists scoffed. The interview with Flowers was tainted, they said, by the reported $130,000 to $175,000 that she was paid (amply recouped...
...HEADLINE NEWS: For coming within a nanosecond of swallowing a phony report that Bush had died; to his credit, a CNN worker threw caution to the winds, shouting "No! Stop! Stop!" in the newsroom as anchor Don Harrison began to announce the "tragic news involving President Bush...
APPEARANCES by Martin Harrison (Rizzoli...