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...after the November election. When Schlesinger was received by Premier Hua Kuo-feng, Hua treated the meeting almost as a summit conference. A solemn-faced, tall (6 ft.) and commanding-looking man, Hua denounced the "new czars" in the Kremlin, arguing that the Soviets are continuing Russia's imperialist traditions. Reaching deep into the 18th century, the Premier warned that in Peter the Great's purported "testament" Russia had already laid claim to South Asia. Hua declared that war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is inevitable -a contention Schlesinger disputed. The Premier added that...
...shown a block-long exhibit of primitive torture instruments, knives, whips, chains and an iron pot in which the hands of serfs were boiled. Secretary Schlesinger was also shown a picture of Broadcaster Lowell Thomas, who visited Tibet in 1949. The country's rulers consider Thomas an "American imperialist" because he sought, on behalf of the Dalai Lama, to obtain U.S. aid for Tibet against the Chinese in the late 1950s. Also on display were parachutes and U.S.-made radio transmitters, part of the equipment used in the Dalai Lama's rebellion. Explained one guide in Chinese...
...said Defense Department Spokesman Tod R. Hullin. Added another Pentagon official: "The situation is fluid." The North Koreans ordered their forces into a state of combat readiness, saying the Americans' "premeditated scheme" at Panmunjom was "the prelude to the war adventure that the U.S. imperialist aggressors may perpetrate...
...secret headquarters in Dublin, maintain countless hideouts and cross the border with ease. In addition to the assassination, Dublin's continuing dilemma was highlighted this week by an international conference sponsored in the capital by the Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political arm. This was the Anti-Imperialist Festival of terrorist-linked organizations attended by 50 delegations, including one from the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...strike, comes to symbolize the Communist answer to the Head of State's corrupt method. Though he does not succeed in bringing about a popular revolution, near the end of the book The Student surfaces in Paris as he is leaving for the "First World Conference on Colonial and Imperialist Politics" in the company of Jawaharlal Nehru. He is moving into the future, while the Head of State erodes in his senile Parisian exile...