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...army marched and fought across 7000 miles of rugged, Kuomintang dominated terrain, losing 90,000 of its 100,000 troops. The Kuomintang also killed Mao's sister and first wife. Only after the Second World War were the communists able to devastate the U.S.-backed forces of General Chiang Kai-Shek, until eventually and finally China's major cities "fell like ripened fruit...
...Marxism; there he met Chou En-lai and joined the Chinese Communist Party. Back in China, he joined forces in 1928 with Mao Tse-tung, who was organizing the Red Fourth Army. Chu Teh led the 6,000-mile Long March to Shensi province to avoid destruction by Chiang Kai-shek and was Mao's field commander in the successful struggle against the Nationalist armies in 1946-49. A political moderate, during the 1966-67 Great Cultural Proletarian Revolution Chu Teh was attacked as a "big ruffian." He was titular head of state for the past 19 months...
...family. Like Chou, Teng went to France on a work-study program when he was 16. Before he left Paris six years later, he had joined the Chinese Communist Party. He returned home (by way of Moscow) to become a guerrilla commander after the Communist split with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang in 1927. Also like Chou, he is a veteran of Mao's legendary Long March, which until recently was essential for anyone hoping to rise high in the party hierarchy. In 1954, after service as Minister of Finance and Vice Premier, Teng was named the party's Secretary...
...because of an inherited intolerance for alcohol. Now two medical researchers at a Phoenix, Ariz., branch of the National Institutes of Health and the Indiana University School of Medicine have challenged that belief. Using 30 Indian and 30 white volunteers as test subjects, Drs. Lynn J. Bennion and Ting-Kai Li let each slowly down a 3-oz. jigger of 50% ethanol, the form of alcohol in liquor. After a lapse of 90 minutes to allow total absorption of the alcohol into the bloodstream, they began taking blood samples from the subjects once every 30 minutes over a three-hour...
...both countries were exploited colonies of Japan; they lacked natural resources and had almost no industrial base. Moreover, South Korea suffered a devastating war between 1950 and 1953, while Taiwan was shaken by the Communist takeover of the Chinese mainland and the subsequent arrival of 2 million of Chiang Kai-shek's followers...