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...Last Farewell To Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Idi Amin, Dr. Atkins and Mr. Rogers, Carney, Cash, Kazan and Kate...
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK...
...Enduring Woman Madame Chiang Kai-shek [EULOGY, Nov. 3], wife of China's Nationalist leader, made use of her fluent English in a wartime address to the U.S. Congress in which she appealed for aid for her country, which was fighting Japanese invaders. TIME described that speech in a March 1, 1943, report...
...millions of Chinese, the Long March is a seminal historic event. In 1934, the more-than-80,000-strong Red Army, having been routed by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, retreated from its base in southeast China on a harrowing yearlong slog that killed 9 out of 10 soldiers?but ultimately, by saving the core cadre to fight another day, set the stage for the Communists' victory, launched a nation and turned a little-known guerilla fighter named Mao Zedong into a hero...
DIED. MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK, 105, charismatic, imperious anticommunist politician and widow of the nationalist Chinese leader; in New York City (see page...