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Died. Dr. Carsun Chang, 82, longtime leader of China's "third force" movement, an amorphous coalition of intellectuals that for 20 years vainly sought to establish a democratic alternative to either Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomingtang or the Communists; in Berkeley, Calif...
...more major hotels are due by the early 1970s, when tourism is expected to total 1,000,000 visitors a year. The local government is arranging financing for a $17 million runway extension that will open Kai Tak Airport to jumbo jets; it is also planning a $500 million subway and a $350 million road improvement, including a tunnel to connect the mainland Kowloon peninsula with Hong Kong Island...
Died. Li Tsung-jen, 78, opportunistic Chinese general who fought with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang forces against both the Communists and the Japanese, was elected Vice President of the tottering Chinese Republic in 1948, and after serving briefly as President, exiled himself to the U.S. in 1949 before defecting to Communist China; after a long illness; in Peking...
John Paton Davies Jr. was born in China, the son of U.S. missionary parents. He joined the Foreign Service in 1931, served largely in the Orient and advised General Joseph ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell in Chungking during World War II. There, he criticized Chiang Kai-shek for battling Mao Tse-tung's Communists more ardently than their common enemy, the invading Japanese armies. That stand cost Davies his job. In 1953, Senator Joseph McCarthy named him as part of a group that "did so much toward delivering our Chinese friends into Communist hands...
...great political geniuses of all time. Over a span of thirty years he personally molded a classic revolution and within three years of his victory, had crisscrossed China's vast expanse with the most complex and effective political apparatus the country has ever known. The accomplishment cluded Chian Kai-shek for as many years, as it cluded the warlords for ten years before...