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...Kang was put under house arrest, and later died. Khrushchev's opinion is that "most probably, Mao had him strangled or poisoned. Mao was capable of such things, just as Stalin was." Why did Stalin betray Kao Kang? Khrushchev's judgment is that the Soviet dictator figured that sooner or later Mao would have learned on his own that Kao Kang had been informing on him and, if that had happened, Mao could have accused Stalin of fomenting opposition to the Chinese government. "Stalin wanted to win Mao's trust and friendship, so he took reports about...
...responsibility, raising two to major Cabinet posts. He has also permitted a relaxation in the K.M.T.'s ruthless demand of blind obedience. The government these days comes in for lively scolding from youthful and dynamic critics such as Chang Chun-hung, 34, editor of The Intellectual magazine, and Kang Ning-hsiang, 34, a former gas-station attendant elected to the legislative assembly as an independent. But critics can only go so far: one of the most notable of them, Writer Li Ao, remains in prison (since 1971) for his harassment of the regime...
...last paragraph of the article, it was implied that the phrase "the mistreating and misleading of Mrs. Mao by the Chinese Department" originated in the H-RCSA Newsletter's editorial when in fact it was merely a reference to the same phrase used by Mr. Jeffrey Kang '76 whose letter to the H-RCSA Newsletter editor was the basis for the editorial...
...Peking's new press and propaganda chief; another is Chang Chun-chiao, party boss of Shanghai, who recently has been working out of Peking as China's man in charge of relations with foreign Communists. That job was formerly handled by Kang Sheng, a leftist Politburo member who may have been one of the earliest casualties of the political infighting that boiled up over the summer...
...largest outfit is the tactical airlift wing at Ching Chuan Kang, made up of about 4,500 men and four airlift squadrons with a total authorized capacity of 64 Hercules C-130 aircraft, used to transport troops, medical evacuees and heavy equipment. There are also about 1,300 men headquartered at Shu Lin Kou Air Station and a detachment of two F-4 Phantoms at Tainan. Nuclear weapons locations are, of course, among the most highly classified secrets, but it is almost certain that there are none on Taiwan...