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...CHINA: FROM REVOLUTION TO REVOLUTION by STANLEY KARNOW 592 pages. Viking...
...best-known characters of Chinese folklore is Monkey, who is forever running amuck and terrorizing celestial Establishment figures like the Jade Emperor. As Stanley Karnow notes in his account of the Cultural Revolution, Monkey also happens to be one of Mao Tse-tung's favorite characters. He has even likened himself to Monkey in a poem, wielding the great cudgel of "class struggle" against his enemies and history...
...risky to try on the basis of what was available. Even such an event as the two-page, seven-picture spread on the presidential visit in Peking's People's Daily, described by resident correspondents as "unprecedented," proved an enigma. The Washington Post's Stanley Karnow thought the display was "calculated to communicate to the Chinese population the advent of a new era in Sino-American relations." But A.P. Correspondent Frank Cormier cautioned that it might be aimed mainly at irritating the Russians...
...Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee, Kissinger's remarks amounted to an Administration policy pronouncement and in the public interest required attribution. He ordered Reporter Stanley Karnow to identify Kissinger by name. Declared Bradlee: "We have engaged in this deception and done this disservice to the reader long enough...
...other speakers on the "peacepanel" included Rep. Donald Riegle (R-Mich.), Stanley Karnow, Far Eastern correspondent for the Washington Post, and Daniel Ellsberg, former consultant to Henry Kissinger, now at M. I. T. Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) also addressed the group in a pre-recorded telephone hook-up from Washington...