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High party officials began to fall from power: Peking Party Boss Peng Chen; the capital's Deputy Mayor Wu Han; Army Chief of Staff Lo Jui-ching; Culture Minister Lu Ting-yi. Most of the party purge victims were latecomers to Maoism (only Lo and Lu were on the Long March...
Ousted Executioner. The army's elevated role has moved Defense Minister Lin Piao, 59, into favored position to succeed the 72-year-old Mao. Lin's position was buttressed by last week's announcement that Marshal Lo Juiching, chief of the army general staff and leader of the massive executions in the mid-1950s (TIME cover, March 5, 1956), had been replaced by a Lin protégé and thus presumably purged. Lo made the mistake of arguing that the army should stay out of politics...
...tripped on the carpet, flipping the hidden switch that opened a secret trap door. There it all was-Bojarsky's carefully constructed pulp vats and printing presses, surrounded by hundreds of bills drying on polyester slabs. For 16 years he had worked ten hours a day in a lO-ft.-sq. cave doing the jobs of seven skilled technicians, turned out a crackling $1,000,000 worth of multicolored likes of Molière and Victor Hugo...
...nation's crop), and in the plush, air-conditioned clubs above Cholon's shops, coatless, tieless Chinese businessmen in bright Hawaiian sport shirts gather to chiao-chi-transact business in as pleasurable a manner as possible. In clubs such as the Chins Shan (Green Mountain) and Lo-t'ien (Happy Sky), the walls echo to the rattle of mah-jongg stones and the click of poker chips on black teak tables. Plenty of business is consummated as well...
...April the Prince handed over seven tons of dried fish to a Viet Cong representative in a ceremony at Pnompenh's royal palace. Last week American officials in Saigon disclosed that U.S. troops near the town of Lo Go on the Cambodian border had received heavy weapons fire from Cambodian territory, and were ultimately forced to silence it with howitzer fire. Even more interesting evidence of Sihanouk's cooperation with the Communists was the discovery of a new infiltration route into South Viet Nam-a chain of truck roads, bicycle trails and rivers that provides transport for supplies...