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...boxes in which he carried his records on the Long March; here is the charcoal pan at which, one day while he was writing, he was so absorbed his sandals began to burn. Next door is another little house, once shared by Chu Teh (with wife) and Chou En-lai (with wife) One notes: a private house for Mao, for his two closest companions a shared cottage. Here Mao lived until 1938, when the Japanese began to bomb Yanan and he moved three miles north to the cave encampment at Yangjialing...
...notes, Mao had two whitewashed rooms in Yangjialing and a private air-raid shelter. On either side Chu Teh and Chou En-lai each had caves. By now their Red Army had become the Eighth Route Army and was across the Yellow River, fighting Japan. Beneath their hill, by 1942, they had built the yellow brick headquarters of the Central Committee. These three were to remain the power for almost 40 years...
...caves of the same three men. Mao's boasted no fewer than five rooms; he slept now in a handsome dark wood sleigh bed, on a hardwood board with only a thin pad on top. Chu Teh had a fine cave suite to his left, Chou En-lai to his right...
...there. And seven years after he left the Government, he is still a significant figure on the public stage who draws fierce loyalists and unrelenting foes. A leader among the foes is Seymour Hersh, who won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of the story of the My Lai massacre...
...from ten years with the Minneapolis Tribune. He later became the Education writer for three years, during which he wrote a favorite cover story, in 1966, on great college teachers. Since 1969, he has written almost exclusively for the Nation section, treating at cover length everything from the My Lai massacre revelations that year to last month's profile of Florida Representative Claude Pepper. In between, there were the Pentagon papers, the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, the Iran hostage crisis and many thousands of words of political analysis. But Magnuson is chiefly renowned among colleagues as TIME...