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...heir. The congress will also legitimize the new leadership that has emerged from the crucible of the purges. Finally, the delegates will select a new Central Committee. The old committee was purged of at least two-thirds of its membership, including such leading figures as President Liu Shaochi and Teng Hsiao-ping, the party secretary-general. With that, the congress will officially establish the ruling group that may well preside over the post-Mao succession period...
Giant Butterfly. A cultural hero's welcome awaits him. At the premiere of Dreams, the audience demanded 31 curtain calls. Critics raved about Yun's prodigious orchestral and vocal writing and his intuitive knack for fantasy. The first work, Dreams of Liu-tung, depicts the adventures of a frivolous student who is converted to Taoism when a magician conjures up four dreams that chillingly depict his fate. Butterfly Widow is a comedy about a high-court functionary, Chan-tse, who dreams each night that he is a beautiful giant butterfly. A philosopher tells Chan-tse that...
...Radcliffe sophomore was stabbed at 12:30 p.m. last night in the dining room of Jordan J by an unidentified blond man. The man ran out of the dorm immediately after stabbing Minnie Liu '71 in the thigh with a knife. He reportedly came into the dorm "looking for girls," grabbed the girl on bells, who screamed and ran into the dining room; he followed her, and stabbed Miss Liu, who had her back to him. Miss Liu was taken to the University Health Services, and is reportedly in no danger. As of 1:30 a.m. this morning, Cambridge police...
...When one of the peasants went down into the cesspool to shovel up the manure, he was overcome by the noxious (hydrogen sulfide) gas. Poor Peasant Liu Kung-chen and another peasant went down to rescue him, but by the time he had been pulled out, both of them had been overcome by the poisonous gas and had collapsed...
...Time meant lives! Without a moment's hesitation, Comrade Chang Yu-liang jumped in. Chang Yu-liang took hold of Peasant Liu Kung-chen and used every ounce of strength to pass him up to the mouth of the pit. As he turned around and reached out to save the other peasant, he was overcome by the poisonous gas and fell into the pit with a splash." Thus did Chang meet his end, observed the People's Daily, sacrificing "his life in order to save his class brothers...