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...bounced down the aisle of Peking's Great Hall of the People, dressed in a tailored People's Liberation Army uniform topped by a soldier's fur hat. She sat in the front row near Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi, who did not seem to mind when the cameras left them to zero in on her. While an Albanian song and dance troupe went through its paces, she peered through her thick-lensed glasses, smiled frozenly through buck teeth and applauded energetically. Thus last week, on film released by Peking and shown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Public Fury No. 1 | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...protest" and demanded that "the Soviet government publicly apologize." The entire staff of the Moscow embassy held a meeting to condemn the "fascist atrocity." In Peking, Russia's embassy was soon surrounded by a nonstop demonstration of Chinese students and soldiers in an ugly mood. Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi sent a cable promising the students a triumphant return to Peking. The Chinese Foreign Ministry, in an elaborate attack, said: "Since we dread neither heaven nor earth, neither devils nor gods, how can we possibly dread you, a few flies freezing to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: High Invective | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

Peace & Quiet. Well aware that industrial chaos aided neither side in the power struggle, both factions last week seemed to be giving Mediator Chou En-lai a chance to get the assembly lines moving again. Chiding both the Red Guards for their excesses and the opposition for its stubbornness, Chou, according to wall posters, spent all night settling an aircraft-engine ministry strike. When one workers' group complained that a rival group had smashed its "publicity car," Chou snarled that he would like to see all publicity cars smashed "so maybe Chairman Mao could get a little peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Death of Li | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

Indira has had her own share of troubles since she succeeded the late Lai Bahadur Shastri one year ago. Her attempts to rejuvenate the country's stag nating economy by devaluating the overpriced rupee brought loud screams of protest from most of the nation's politicians. Though she has so far saved India from widespread famine by arranging for special shipments of U.S. grain, many Indian leftists denounced her for relying too heavily on the Americans for help. Her attempts to free the country from crippling state controls have brought charges that she is abandoning the socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: A Plea for the Tree | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...United Nations he may sometimes seem a dogmatic hardliner. It turns out that Soviet Ambassador Niko lai Fedorenlco, 54, is also reasonably good with the one-liners. He showed up on TV's Merv Griffin show, brandish ing a thick Havana cigar, which made him look as if he'd learned his Marx from Groucho. As he mentioned Channel 5, the station that broadcasts the show in New York, he grinned: "My wife likes Channel 5 (applause) . . . Chanel 5 from Paris, you know [laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 20, 1967 | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

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