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...Lai Massacre...
...person who should be in charge really is running the show. That person, in turn, is deemed accountable for any initiatives taken and eventually suffers the consequences if those initiatives are condemned by the public. William Calley, the man who ordered his troops to slaughter the inhabitants of My Lai, can attest to that. So can Richard Nixon...
...approximately 5 ft. tall), half elf, half gunman; at 79 he is China's foremost pragmatist and is engagingly candid. A brilliant youngster who graduated from high school at 15, he went off to France after World War I as a student. There he met Chou En-lai (of whom Deng said recently, "I regarded him as my elder brother"), joined the Communist movement, returned to China, led peasant insurrections in Guangxi and joined Mao Tse-tung for the Long March...
Next comes Li Xiannian, 78, also a war hero; he has now been named officially President of China. He too carries memories. During the Great Terror, mobbed by the Red Guards, he was saved only by Chou En-lai's intercession. How can you attack this man as a "capitalist roader," asked Chou, when he is in charge of our aid to Viet Nam, where we are fighting American imperialism...
...moved the Zhongyang to Fragrant Hill so its fires twinkled above the capital. Mao's troops were still cleaning out the fallen city, and it was not yet safe for him to enter, even though Nationalist dignitaries were about to arrive to sue for peace. Each morning Chou En-lai and Wang Bingnan would drive down to negotiate; each evening they would drive back to report. Mao was inflexible: no terms for surrender. China was his to remake...